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Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Balsall Common
Representation ID: 14192
Received: 11/12/2020
Respondent: Berkswell Parish Council
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Paragraph 527. Object to the lack of certainty of the delivery of the whole length of the Balsall Common Relief Road in one. A phased approach with the Station Road to Waste Lane section completed first will lead to rat running along Hob Lane/Waste Lane/Windmill Lane and compromise highway safety.
The Balsall Common Relief Road is critical to the soundness and deliverability of the plan in a way that meets the requirements of the NPPF.
The wording of paragraph 527 should be amended by addition of the following sentence.
“It is planned that the Relief Road will be delivered as a single entity within the same time frame to connect Meer End with Station Road. In that way a continuous relief road will be completed in a single event without compromising local lanes”
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Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Balsall Common
Representation ID: 14193
Received: 11/12/2020
Respondent: Berkswell Parish Council
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Welcomes the proposal to build a new primary school in Balsall Common as part of the Plan. However, the phasing of primary school educational places is not consistent with the housing phasing. The educational policy does not make sufficient provision, as required by the NPPF, for primary school provision during phase 1 of the housing allocation.
1. The Trevallion stud site (BC5) should not be allocated to phase 1 of the plan in paragraph 226 but allocated to phase 2.
2. The commitment to a new primary school in paragraph 531 and policy BC1 should provide that construction of the new primary school should commence early in phase 1 of the plan
These actions will leave a theoretical shortage of 30 places during phase 1 of the plan but that is probably within the margin of prediction error.
As an alternative sites BC2 and BC3 could be re-scheduled into the second allocation phasing leaving only site BC5 to be developed in phase 1. That will eliminate the fully projected shortage of primary school places during the first phase of the housing plan by reducing house building in that phase to 200 homes down from a maximum of 565 to 200
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Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Balsall Common
Representation ID: 14194
Received: 11/12/2020
Respondent: Berkswell Parish Council
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Welcomes the commitment in paragraph 528 to create a village centre master plan. However, residents need more than a plan with a 60% increase in the population of Balsall Common. The centre needs to be actually improved to cope with the increased population. A minority of the centre falls within Berkswell Parish with the majority with our sister parish Balsall. Rather than repeat the case made by Balsall PC, it is requested that the Examiner notes Berkswell PCs support for the case made by Balsall PC and their proposed wording change to paragraph 528.
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