Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 14756
Received: 14/12/2020
Respondent: Mr Ian Williams
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Policy P17 is overly restrictive and unnecessarily so and in some areas it does not comply with NPPF (Para 68) and does not reflect the direction of travel in national planning aims and policies.
3 i) and ii) are too restrictive. Limited in-filling or redevelopment should not be limited to listed locations
3 iii) should specify that additions under national permitted development rights are not included, affected or limited/reduced by the Policy and that development of a third floor in the loft should not count towards the 40%.
4) The very special circumstances factors are too narrow.
Green Boundary should be changed to include Site 127.
See modifications in the representations which include:
3 i) and ii) – delete and replace with "Limited infilling or redevelopment will be permitted in accordance with NPPF paras 145 and 146.
3 iii) should be amended to, "Disproportionate additions shall be interpreted as additions that are more than 40% of the original floorspace of the building. However:
a) Additions in the third floor loftspace shall not count towards the additional 40% as they do not impact on the openness of the Green Belt; and
b) Any development under national permitted development rights will not be i) included in the calculation of the original floorspace; ii) counted towards the 40% addition; or iii) otherwise affected or restricted by this Policy."
4 – The list after "In considering proposals for inappropriate development in the Green Belt, the following factors may be taken into account as very special circumstances": Add all circumstances listed in [para 145 and para 146 NPPF].
Para 417 - The pressure on the Green Belt in Solihull has been intensified by the requirement for development emerging from housing needs (both for the Borough and wider housing market area); the lack of vacant and derelict land in the Borough, that Solihull has significant Green Belt @67% with the boundary being set in 1997 when Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council adopted its Unitary Development Plan (UDP) which formally delineated the Borough’s Green Belt boundaries including those areas designated as interim Green Belt.
Set out the minor modifications to the Green Belt under Para 420 and include Site 127 as a minor modification on the Green Belt boundary as it is an anomaly given the location, surrounding land uses and the self-contained nature of the site and/ the inability to of the Site to expand further into the Green Belt or be used as a precedent for other expansion
Para 422 – delete.
Para 242 –Deletions and additions as suggested in the representations.
See attachments.