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Berkswell Parish Council Response to Draft Solihull Plan Berkswell Parish Council PO Box 6379, Coventry, CV6 9LP Berkswell Parish Council response to draft Solihull Plan This report is divided into two sections. Part 1 covers the Parish Council’s response to the housing numbers and site selection issues. Part 2 covers response to all other issues and SMBC questions. Contents Part 1 - Response to the draft Solihull Plan covering issues related to housing numbers and site selection ....... 2 1. Summary .................................................................................................................................................. 2 2. Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 2 3. Response to questions in relation to site selection and housing numbers ............................................... 3 4. The Greenbelt Scoring System ................................................................................................................ 12 Criteria 1- To check the unrestricted sprawl of large built-up areas. .......................................................... 12 Criteria 2 - To prevent neighbouring towns merging into one another. ..................................................... 12 Criteria 3 - To assist in safeguarding the countryside from encroachment. ............................................... 13 Amended Greenbelt scoring ....................................................................................................................... 14 5. Conclusion .......................................................................................................................................... 17 Part 2 - Response to the Solihull draft plan covering issues other than site selection ....................................... 18 1. What needs to happen in Balsall Common to accommodate the growth. ............................................. 18 2. Recommendation 1 – Balsall Common centre (questions 1, 7, 2 and 16)............................................... 18 3. Recommendation 2 - Spatial Strategy (question 3) ................................................................................ 19 4. Recommendation 3 – Berkswell Station Car Parking (question 16) ........................................................ 19 5. Recommendation 4 - Bus and Train Services (Question 18) ................................................................... 19 6. Recommendation 5 – Other infrastructure/facilities/Health & Supporting Local Communities (Questions 16 and 21) .................................................................................................................................... 20 7. Recommendation 6 – Inset Study (questions 1, 2, 16) ........................................................................... 22 8. Recommendation 7 - Sustainable Economic Growth – Question 4 & 6 .................................................. 22 9. Recommendation 8 - Providing Homes for all – Question 11 ................................................................. 22 10. Recommendation 9 - Delivery and Monitoring – Question 22 ........................................................... 22 11. Phasing of House building .................................................................................................................. 23 12. Balsall Common bypass ...................................................................................................................... 23 Appendix 1- Photographs showing overflow Station Parking on Hallmeadow Road .......................................... 25 Appendix 2 - Results of 2015 Car Parking Survey .............................................................................................. 26 Appendix 3 – Greenbelt analysis by land parcel ................................................................................................. 28 1 | P a g e Berkswell Parish Council PO Box 6379, Coventry, CV6 9LP Part 1 - Response to the draft Solihull Plan covering issues related to housing numbers and site selection This section of the Berkswell Parish Council response to the draft plan covers issues relating to housing numbers and site selection. Part 2 of the PC’s response covers all other issues and the questions posed by Solihull Council 1. Summary 1.1. The prime objectives of Berkswell Parish Council in connection with town and country planning are to protect the character and appearance of the local landscape, the heritage assets within it, and the amenities of local residents; and to secure and maintain the vital strategic Meriden Gap, which at this point is very narrow and subject to increasing development pressures from within Solihull Metropolitan Borough and from proposals on the south western edge of the Coventry urban area. The area will also be severely adversely affected by the line of HS2. 1.2. The narrow gap between Balsall Common and the western edge of Coventry contains a number of small settlements and scattered developments but it performs a number of very important Green Belt functions in checking the unrestricted sprawl of large built-up areas, preventing neighbouring towns merging into one another; and assisting in safeguarding the countryside from encroachment. The importance of the Green Belt in this area is such that the Parish Council is of the strong opinion that no major development should take place in the gap between the existing defined built-up area boundary on the eastern side of Balsall Common and the western edge of the Coventry urban area. Furthermore, the importance of this particular part of the Green Belt should be given precedence over accessibility consideration and all other matters. 1.3. To this end the Parish Council strongly objects to proposed housing allocation 1 for the erection of 800 dwellings at Barratt’s Farm, Balsall Common and 200 dwellings at Windmill Lane allocation 3. 2. Introduction 2.1. Berkswell Parish Council welcomes the opportunity of commenting on the Draft Local Plan (November 2016) and recognises that the Borough Council has a major task in finding locations to meet the full objectively assessed housing need. The Parish Council further recognises the need for local communities to work with the Borough Council in helping find suitable sustainable locations for new housing development. This, however, must not be at the cost of valued landscapes and accessible areas of countryside, nor, moreover, by removing land from the Green Belt in vital parts of the strategic Meriden Gap. 2.2. The narrow area of land between Balsall Common and the western side of Coventry performs a number of important Green Belt functions within the strategic Meriden Gap, and it must be protected from major developments. The existence of existing settlements and scattered development within the gap between Balsall Common and Coventry does not diminish the need to protect the remaining open areas of countryside, indeed it reinforces the imperative to prevent further major development taking place for, at this point, the gap is very narrow and vulnerable. Further the future construction of HS2, which in itself will have a severe adverse impact on the character and appearance of the area, should not be seen as a justification for new housing or other forms of development. Quite the reverse as the cumulative effects would be immensely damaging. The impacts would be further exacerbated 2 | P a g e Berkswell Parish Council PO Box 6379, Coventry, CV6 9LP should proposals for a by-pass around the eastern side of Balsall Common be progressed by the Borough Council. 2.3. The Parish Council has studied the evidence base to the Draft Local Plan, and makes comments subsequently in this document, but fails to find the exceptional circumstances necessary, as set down in paragraph 83 of the National Planning Policy Framework, to justify altering the established Green Belt boundary on the eastern side of Balsall Common to allow for the scale of new development advanced in proposed housing allocation 1: Barratt’s Farm, Balsall Common. 2.4. The Parish Council recognises the potential accessibility of the proposed site to Berkswell Station, but contends that the vital importance and function of this particularly part of the Green Belt should be given precedence over this consideration and all other matters. We also note that Berkswell Station not only failed to meet the service frequency of the old Policy but also does not meet the requirements of new Policy and is therefore provides non sustainable public transport. The Green Belt boundary should not be altered and no major developments should be permitted in the area. The Borough Council needs to find suitable and sustainable land elsewhere, and in this respect the Parish Council, once again, urges the Borough Council to look more closely at the potential of increasing housing densities within the main urban areas of the Borough especially in and around the town centre and Shirley. 2.5. With regard to the land to the east of Balsall Common the Parish Council finds that the Draft Local Plan fails to be based on the findings of various documents forming the evidence base, and that in some respects that evidence base is flawed and too general to enable the Borough Council to claim that the proposed housing allocations, in particular proposed housing allocation 1, is sound and in accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework. Furthermore, the Draft Local Plan is internally inconsistent in that the allocation does
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