Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 14782
Received: 14/12/2020
Respondent: Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham
Agent: Avison Young
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
LHN is likely to increase as a result of the new standard methodology. There is no agreement over HMA need and no assessment of whether more dwellings could be delivered.
Local Plan should remove additional land from the Green Belt for allocation, as well as safeguard land for residential development at the appropriate time. Failure to do so will inevitably create the need to release more land from the Green Belt when the Local Plan is next reviewed.
The Plan fails the test of soundness in respect of meeting housing needs and ensuring that Green Belt boundaries in the borough will remain beyond the proposed plan period.
(i)Additional land should be taken out of the Green Belt to support residential development in this plan period (with a specific proposal for the removal of land at Widney Manor Road (Site 111)); and
(ii) areas of safeguarded land be identified to meet needs beyond the plan period, or sooner if required as part of a review of the Local Plan.
See attached documents