I believe that the amber site ref A5 Land Off Blue Lake Road should be omitted for the following reasons:

Solihull MBC has agreed that the Knowle, Dorridge and Bentley Heath Neighbourhood plan (as modified by an independent examiner) can go to referendum. That referendum was held on 14th March 2019. Assuming that the referendum is in favour of the plan, Solihull MBC should take notice of the plan in any of its decisions in regard to the Knowle, Dorridge and Bentley Heath area. The plan sets out vision and objectives for the area until 2033. I suggest that SMBC take due notice of the thorough analysis of this plan and how it reflects the views and wishes of the local population.

The relevant parts of the Neighbourhood Plan in relation to the draft local Plan supplementary consultation Q 38 are:
section 3.4 evidence base overview
section 4.1 Location and setting; "....are encircled by countryside (part if the historic Arden landscape) and designated green belt
section 4.4 Housing profile density
Section 4 graphic "land offered - call for sites 2016"; sites 059; 213-215; 148-154; 157; 207; 167 all make more sense in terms of development than the new site 413 which was not included in the call for sites. All these sites are closer to existing more dense housing and encroach less on existing green belt.
section 4.9 Distinctiveness
section 5.5 Village character
section 5.6 School places - the current schools are all full to capacity
section 6.2 Vision statement
Section 7 - all
Section 8 - all, and in particular Housing density. There is a large mismatch between the promoter's vision of housing density on site 413 of 35.05 per hectare with that of the surrounding area of 8.17 per hectare.

I do not think that the Vision document produced by the promoters of the development on site 413 should carry any weight in the decision as it has not been published or considered in public consultation.

I believe that the assessment of site 413 as lower performing interns of green belt is flawed in that the ribbon development is well established and limited and the qualities and contribution that the unbuilt area gives to local residents is very underestimated. SMBC should reconsider this amber site in light of the Landscape and Visual appraisal commissioned by the KDBH Neighbourhood Plan Forum published in January 2019. What has changed from the time when this site was assessed and rejected from the previous local plan?

Site 413 in conjunction with the development to the north of Grove Road and to the east of Station Road would result in the distinctiveness of the two villages of Knowle and Dorridge being subsumed under a huge new housing development which will put unreasonable stress on the local resources, transportation and community services. The proposed allocations in the Draft Local Plan Supplementary Consultation document 236-244 indicate a development of 900-950 dwellings so the allocation of site 413 for an additional 340 dwellings will be overwhelming to the locality.

In particular the congestion on Station Road, not only at the opening and closing times of the schools, and Arden Academy in particular already cause large amounts of congestion restricting the current residents from easily accessing the local facilities. There is no apparent option for releasing this congestion in the present situation let alone with the addition of the amount of housing proposed.

Land release of this scale was not something that was an option considered in the 2018 Greater Birmingham and Black Country Housing Market Strategic Locations Study.