No
Draft Local Plan Review
Representation ID: 1724
Received: 17/02/2017
Respondent: Dr Linda Parsons
Having reduced Solihull town centre to a soulless mass of amorphous shops all selling similar products together with restaurant chains all giving the same food combined with much vacant office space, I cannot believe that more of the same is proposed. We are told that there is need for dwellings so why the commercial emphasis? As the centre of Solihull is already built on why can not more housing be included rather than office and retail? Any office/shop not occupied for more than a year should be converted to dwellings by compulsion.
Having reduced Solihull town centre to a soulless mass of amorphous shops all selling similar products together with restaurant chains all giving the same food combined with much vacant office space, I cannot believe that more of the same is proposed. We are told that there is need for dwellings so why the commercial emphasis? As the centre of Solihull is already built on why can not more housing be included rather than office and retail? Any office/shop not occupied for more than a year should be converted to dwellings by compulsion.