Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
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Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Policy KN2 : South of Knowle (Arden Triangle)
Representation ID: 11126
Received: 14/12/2020
Respondent: Lansdowne Property Developers Limited
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Support the allocation in principle and many of the specific requirements. However, no collaboration or agreement between landowners and Solihull MBC on the masterplan, which inappropriately identifies the Lansdowne site as accommodating the replacement Arden Academy and new Primary School.
Land use distribution within the allocation is not soundly based upon evidence, particularly considering constraints, timescale for delivery of infrastructure (e.g. relocation of Arden Academy) and appropriate viability testing and equalisation of land values. No information justifying that Arden Academy’s relocation is financially viable or deliverable.
The masterplan cannot be relied on to secure the various components of the allocation.
Allocation Policy KN2 and paragraphs 720 -729 require modification. The accompanying Concept Masterplan KN2 also requires redrafting to be relatable to the documented evidence base and to demonstrate the allocation is deliverable.
The Concept Masterplan for Allocation KN2 should be amended or removed to ensure constraints can be appropriately assessed and impacts quantified, with adequate mitigation and infrastructure provision allowed for. Failure to provide sufficient flexibility at this early stage could jeopardise the proposed allocations through a risk of challenge to the development extents and impacts arising.
The educational development should either kept on its existing site or relocated on the Council’s own site within the allocation. This will enable the delivery of the education facilities within the required timetable and to the standard required; without the ensured delivery of these educational facilities the strategic allocation of this site and the infrastructure it is intended to deliver is undermined. Similarly, the reasoning for the site’s Green Belt release is also detrimentally affected.
It is recommended that further consideration of alternatives is undertaken, particularly with respect to the delivery of a new Arden Academy within the School’s existing landholdings. Until the Council has agreement of the allocation masterplan, the policy should not rely upon the accompanying masterplan document to secure the various components of the allocation.
Specific alteration to paragraph 724 is also recommended (see para 5.1.5 of Representations document for exact wording).
An alternative masterplan is proposed.
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