Solihull Town Centre & Mature Suburbs
Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 10578
Received: 30/10/2020
Respondent: Dr Phillipa Ann Roberts
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? Yes
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Para 812 refers to opportunity sites and how the 2016 list is being kept up to date. Significant representations have been made about some of these sights but you do not provide the updated list as part of this LDP document. I consider that this should be provided as part of this consultation.
Specifically Sharmans Cross Road is pivotal in creating the Shirley to Solihull cycle route and yet you do not reference the current position on the inappropriate playing field development and the increased risk to pedestrians and cyclists that would result.
To add the update schedule of opportunity development referred to in para 812 Schedule to take account of desirability of not adversely impacting proposed cycle route by inappropriate development of playing field and consequent increased traffic.
Para 812 refers to opportunity sites and how the 2016 list is being kept up to date. Significant representations have been made about some of these sights but you do not provide the updated list as part of this LDP document. I consider that this should be provided as part of this consultation.
Specifically Sharmans Cross Road is pivotal in creating the Shirley to Solihull cycle route and yet you do not reference the current position on the inappropriate playing field development and the increased risk to pedestrians and cyclists that would result.
Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 13822
Received: 14/12/2020
Respondent: Mrs Joan Vale
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? Not specified
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
The roads in Shirley are too busy, especially around school pick up times.
Increased housing developments raises concern for the effect on the environment.
Good evening
I am writing to say that the plans to build and continue building homes and over 60’s schemes in around Shirley is very concerning. Shirley is already a very congested village with so many people using doctors and dentist and other facilities, you generally have to spend 15 minutes on the phone in a queue just to speak to a doctors reception.
The roads too are busy and if you try to go anywhere around school times you might as well forget it as there are so many cars and huge buses crawling along, never mind parents sitting in their cars with engines running for 15-30 minutes before they collect their children.
We don’t have an A&E anymore which is really concerning with the increasing number of residents and the very poor state of Heartlands A&E, never mind the distance to get there.
The most concerning is the effect on the environment, and the animals and trees and land that they sit on. Our eco system is already stretched and to offer planting a few trees when lots of mature ones are slashed down is disgusting. It’s the animals that suffer at our hands.
Please don’t keep building on spare bits of land, there’s barely anywhere for nature to go and they were here long before humans arrived and decided they should do what they wish.
I am over 60 and have seen big, concerning changes throughout Solihull over the years and it’s only getting worse.
Regards
Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 14300
Received: 14/12/2020
Respondent: Oakmoor (Sharmans Cross Road) Ltd
Agent: Cerda Planning Ltd
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
In previous versions of the Local Plan Review site 246 (Sharmans Cross Road) was included as an allocation in the Plan. Representation seeks the sites re-inclusion as an allocated site in order to assist in ensuring the plan delivers certainty and ultimately success as a tool for meeting its housing needs.
A concept master plan is included with the representations which demonstrates how the site could be developed to make best and efficient use of the land available in accordance with the council’s proposed density aspirations for sustainable sites in urban areas. Ia technical Transport note is also included.
On the basis that the council are evidently relying on the Sharmans Cross site to come forwards in order to deliver the plan as currently proposed, it is submitted that in order to provide the requisite levels of certainty for an Inspector to conclude the plan is sound, this site should receive an allocation within the plan (as was the case previously).
In doing so, the council should have regard to the work which Oakmoor have done (enclosed with these representations) to explore how the site could be feasibly developed to provide a greater quantum of development than the plan indicates the site has capacity for. In doing so, it would assist the council in demonstrating its ability to comply with the requirements of Framework paragraph 137 which in part relates to the testing of underutilised non green belt land to ensure that its development is fully optimised.
See attachments
Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 14399
Received: 14/12/2020
Respondent: Mr & Mrs Parker
Number of people: 2
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? Not specified
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Concerned about plans to build and continue building homes and over 60’s schemes in around Shirley.
The roads are too busy.
There is no A&E in Solihull and the increasing number of residents is concerning.
The most concerning is the effect on the environment, and the animals and trees and land that they sit on. Our eco system is already stretched and to offer planting a few trees when lots of mature ones are slashed down is disgusting
Good evening
I am writing to say that the plans to build and continue building homes and over 60’s schemes in around Shirley is very concerning. Shirley is already a very congested village with so many people using doctors and dentist and other facilities, you generally have to spend 15 minutes on the phone in a queue just to speak to a doctors reception.
The roads too are busy and if you try to go anywhere around school times you might as well forget it as there are so many cars and huge buses crawling along, never mind parents sitting in their cars with engines running for 15-30 minutes before they collect their children.
We don’t have an A&E anymore which is really concerning with the increasing number of residents and the very poor state of Heartlands A&E, never mind the distance to get there.
The most concerning is the effect on the environment, and the animals and trees and land that they sit on. Our eco system is already stretched and to offer planting a few trees when lots of mature ones are slashed down is disgusting. It’s the animals that suffer at our hands.
Please don’t keep building on spare bits of land, there’s barely anywhere for nature to go and they were here long before humans arrived and decided they should do what they wish.
Regards
Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 14463
Received: 14/12/2020
Respondent: Councillor Max McLoughlin
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? Not specified
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Para 787- change ‘many’ to ‘all’… of the schools suffer from traffic congestion at opening and closing times.
Para 795- the application for over 200 dwellings, including more retirement living and a care home, on the former Morrisons site should have neem acknowledged in the plan.
Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 14776
Received: 14/12/2020
Respondent: Rainier Developments Ltd - Land at Widney Manor Road
Agent: Marrons Planning
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Site 407 (Land at Widney Manor Road) -The negative effects identified in the SA can be mitigated for example ecology, amenity and distance to local services. There are no significant adverse effects that would mean the site should not be allocated.
The site clearly falls within the first tier of the Spatial Strategy (Option A), not Option G as in the Site Assessment. The site selection has not fairly considered the site and includes no sound reasons for not allocating it.
The Green Belt parcel within which the site is located is wide and does not reflect the site.
The site is suitable for nine dwellings as shown on the illustrative masterplan appended. It is:
a. is developable, available and achievable;
b. is low performing in Green Belt terms when correctly assessed
c. has a low impact in landscape terms due to its enclosed nature;
d. is sustainable being within walking distance of Widney Manor Rail Station and Solihull Town Centres.
As a site of 1ha, it would make a contribution to addressing the failure of the Plan to identify sufficient small sites.
The Land off Widney Manor Road should be re-assessed within an updated SA.
The Plan should include an allocation of land at Widney Manor Road (Site 407).
Please see attached representations on behalf of Rainier Developments Limited for land at Widney Manor Road (Site 407)
Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 14780
Received: 14/12/2020
Respondent: Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham
Agent: Avison Young
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? Not specified
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Site 111 is located immediately adjacent to the Solihull urban area and is well-related to it. The site is accessible to bus and rail which provide access to jobs and facilities. There are a range of education, health and shopping facilities which can be accessed by car and public transport.
The site is almost entirely located in Flood Zone 1 and at low risk of flooding. It does not comprise Best and Most Versatile Agricultural Land. There are no designated heritage assets located on it, or in close proximity to it.
The site occupies a sustainable location that it is suitable for new residential development.
Criticism of how Site 111 has been assessed by SMBC.
Site 111 occupies a sustainable location that it is suitable for new residential development.
See attached documents
Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 15159
Received: 23/11/2020
Respondent: Mark Billson
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? Not specified
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Impact on school's, shops bus routes doctors, hospitals - road infrastructure lacking.
Just read a green party leaflet about all the housing being built in and around Shirley and having visited your site also around Solihull.
There seems to be no mention of school's, shops bus routes doctors, hospitals that would needed to support all the people that would be moving into the area. The road infrastructure also seems to be lacking in thought or have I missed something here