1) By enabling JLR to develop the logistics centre and further on this site will probably reduce the number of people employed in the midlands within their supply chain, this has got to be a consequence of this proposal. Therefore there is no argument on employment benefits to the region.
2) By freeing up the land identified in allocation 20 will create an uninterrupted length of commercial land in excess of 5 miles from Lode Lane in the West to beyond the current NEC site in the East. I do not agree that this is acceptable under good planning design.
3) The buildings proposed by JLR for the logistic centre are totally disproportionate in terms of scale and height, they will be within a very short distance of the road, stand 18 m high being the tallest commercial building in the borough, will be visible from all major routes including the A45 and are totally out of keeping with what was a quiet residential area. It is abundantly clear to me that the authority will have little interest in the details of what they propose in the future, this has been demonstrated already.
4) JLR will take the cheapest solution as they have demonstrated by constructing that dreadful bridge over the main road close to gate D on Damson Parkway. This could have been taken under the road but it would have cost more. This reminds me of the sort of thing being built on the Jaguar Castle Bromwich site in the mid 1980's. The dispatch area should never have been approved, the traffic is a nightmare and when you approach the area you think you are driving into an industrial park. The only way to restrict this further is at a high level.
5) Justification for this proposal is partly reliant on the fact that consent has been given for other developments in the area however such consents should never have been given.
6) There appears to me to be only two parties benefiting from this and they are JLR and Solihull Council who will be able to benefit from an increase in non-domestic rates.
7) Several thousand homes East/North East of Lugtrout Lane will be negatively affected by this proposal with no benefit at all. As there is no mention of a compensation scheme to those residents the proposal should be omitted from the plan.