Object

Representation ID: 14955

Received: 11/12/2020

Respondent: CPRE Warwickshire Branch

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

- Clear that Solihull cannot meet its housing requirement of 15,270 homes without significant adverse harm to Green Belt and environment
- SM is not suitable basis for housing requirement and assumption is there are no constraints to meeting full requirement
- SM does not take into account in-and-out commuting of the Borough
- Citing Govt advisor Professor Wenban-Smith, it is dangerous to release too much land: ‘over provision can never be corrected, under provision can be corrected later when needs are better defined.’
- Proposed delivery rate of 938dpa is a huge step-up for construction industry to achieve in the Borough – not been achieved in a single year since 2001 (highest being 836 in 2005/06)
- Average delivery rate over last 5 years is 706 dpa.