No

Draft Local Plan Review

Representation ID: 3029

Received: 15/02/2017

Respondent: Jo Visor

Representation Summary:

Object to housing Site 9 as whilst recognise need to redevelop and refurbish parts of the Arden campus, oppose demolition of newly built teaching and sports facilities which have benefitted from public investment in recent years for the purposes of house building, and any further housing development should be subject to a comprehensive plan showing road and parking improvements, better public transport and primary school provision.

Full text:

Arden Academy and new houses in Knowle

Arden Academy have encourage parents to respond directly to you with comments on the 2020 Vision for Arden.

My comments are:
1) I recognise the need to redevelop and refurbish parts of the Arden site however I fundamentally disagree with also demolishing newly built, modern teaching & sports facilities for the purposes of additional house building. There are large parts of the infrastructure of Arden that have been invested in (by the taxpayer) over recent years and it is wrong for these to be destroyed farther than incorporated into future plans for a secondary school.
2) For any further housing development of the Knowle, Dorridge, Bentley Heath area, a comprehensive plan which includes road transport improvements, parking improvements, better public transport provision and primary school and other facilities must be considered alongside housing and a secondary school.