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Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Policy BL2 - South of Dog Kennel Lane
Representation ID: 10826
Received: 13/12/2020
Respondent: Solihull Tree Wardens
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
The site will destroy Green Belt farmland and could damage, if not destroy, fine mature trees.
It will increase the risk of flooding downstream in the Cheswick Green area.
Many houses are already being built in Cheswick Green parish.This development will add to the excessive pressure on local services, such as transport and medical facilities.
The lack of a proper defined southern boundary to the development could lead to further development in the future, destroying the open space between Shirley and Cheswick Green. The proposed estate roads would probably encourage future development, country park plans not withstanding.
Use brown field sites instead.
The site will destroy Green Belt farmland and could damage, if not destroy, fine mature trees.
It will increase the risk of flooding downstream in the Cheswick Green area.
Many houses are already being built in Cheswick Green parish.This development will add to the excessive pressure on local services, such as transport and medical facilities.
The lack of a proper defined southern boundary to the development could lead to further development in the future, destroying the open space between Shirley and Cheswick Green. The proposed estate roads would probably encourage future development, country park plans not withstanding.
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Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Policy P9 Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change
Representation ID: 14871
Received: 10/12/2020
Respondent: Solihull Tree Wardens
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Objects to Policy P9;
Policy P9 (Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change) is unsound because it is ineffective and inconsistent with national policies concerning climate change. In particular, the zero-net-carbon commitment set out in the Climate Change Act 2008 (2050 Target Amendment) Order 2019 and the ambitions of the Council's Climate Change Emergency Declaration (8 October 2019) cannot be achieved without closer integration of development policies with a strategy for the Borough's trees
Tree's make a valuable contribution to many environmental objectives - Require a clear tree strategy.
To include some of the benefits of trees, section 2 preamble, "to reduce carbon
emissions" should be replaced with "to reduce and mitigate carbon emissions".
To specify trees as a mitigation strategy, new subsection 2 (v) should be added to
section 2:
"All developments shall contribute to the meeting of the Tree Canopy Cover target
appropriate for the location, assessed by a standardised methodology"
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