Reviewing the Plan for Solihull’s Future

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Reviewing the Plan for Solihull’s Future Birmingham Business Park Draft Local Plan 138. Most of the remaining area of the business park is committed to development through detailed planning consents. To supplement the land offer of the business park and potentially accelerate the delivery of new employment opportunities and enable stronger links to North Solihull, especially by public transport, a 9.0 hectare site at the south west corner of the business park was allocated in the SLP. This would facilitate a development with a buffer zone of green space between the business park and the residential development along Coleshill Road and Blackfirs Lane. This buffer, together with that existing to the north west of the business park, is to be positively managed and enhanced. This would facilitate public transport access to the site from North Solihull via a new bus link into the business park from Blackfirs Lane that would also link to the National Exhibition Centre. Challenges and Objectives Addressed by the Policy A B C D F H J K L M N Reducing inequalities in the Borough Meeting housing needs across the Borough, including the Borough’s own needs and, where possible, assisting with accommodating the HMA wide shortfall. Sustaining the attractiveness of the Borough for people who live, work and invest in Solihull Securing sustainable economic growth Climate change Increasing accessibility and encouraging sustainable travel Improving health and well being Protecting and enhancing our natural assets Water quality and flood risk Maximising the economic and social benefits of the High Speed 2 rail link and Interchange Mitigating the impacts of High Speed 2 and the growth associated with the Interchange area 4. Do you agree with Policy P1? If not why not, and what alternative would you suggest? 5. Do you agree with the key objectives that development is expected to meet as identified in Policy P1 are appropriate? If not why not? Are there any others you think should be included? Policy P1A Blythe Valley Business Park The Council will support and encourage the development of Blythe Valley Business Park within its boundary defined in this Local Plan to support its role as a mixed use development including as a prime employment location (to enhance its important role as a high quality, managed business park) and residential community. Development that will be supported and encouraged as follows: Business development for uses falling in the Business Use Classes (B1, B2 and B8). The Council will expect development to progress in a well planned way that will maintain the attractiveness of the Business Park to investors and that will protect and enhance the environment including the natural environment. Solihull MBC - 46 - November 2016
Reviewing the Plan for Solihull’s Future Draft Local Plan The Council will also support a broad range of supporting ancillary or complementary uses needed to enhance the attraction of the business park to occupiers. These could include hotels, health and fitness, leisure, childcare facilities and local facilities falling within use classes A1 to A5 (of the Use Classes Order) of a scale that does not compete with existing or planned facilities outside the business park. At Blythe Valley Business Park the Council will support and encourage the delivery of a major quantity of employment floorspace by improving the attractiveness of the park to investors through an improved range of amenities, supported by well planned residential development that will create an overall sense of place and a more sustainable location. The Council will expect new facilities, including the residential element of Blythe Valley Park, to be developed within the context of a masterplan to demonstrate how integration would be achieved between existing and planned facilities and with the network of villages that lie nearby and that the business park looks outwards as well as inwards in terms of connectivity to facilities beyond the business park and how any new facilities could be provided in a way that benefits the wider area including nearby communities. Justification 139. Blythe Valley Business Park did not begin to be developed until the late 1990s and has a different character to Birmingham Business Park in terms of its architecture and occupiers. It has attracted large buildings for corporate occupiers though more recently has catered for smaller scale uses whilst retaining its commitment to distinctive high quality design. 140. The Business Park has a substantial area of land remaining to be developed. The Business Park has aspirations to increase vitality and provide a greater sense of place by broadening the business use offer and enabling a range of supporting facilities that will help to make the business park attractive to investors and occupiers and making the business park more sustainable. 141. This was recognised in the SLP which included a substantial residential allocation at the park that was expected to deliver some 600 dwellings. This was intended to help to reinvigorate the park by helping to support a broader range of on-site facilities, supporting the vitality of the park and accelerating job delivery. It would also provide the opportunity to develop a real sense of place and improved public transport facilities to villages in the area, better links to the main urban area of Solihull, improved pedestrian and cycle links and increased accessibility for local communities. Through the efficient use of land the Council will expect a substantial quantity of employment development to be brought forward sufficient to reflect the primary purpose of the site as a business park 142. To pursue the SLP allocation a vision document was prepared by the then new site owners (IM Properties) and submitted to the Council in 2015. This was endorsed by the Council as a vision shared by the authority for the future development of the park. A planning application has now been submitted and is due to be determined shortly. Challenges and Objectives Addressed by the Policy A B D E Reducing inequalities in the Borough Meeting housing needs across the Borough, including the Borough’s own needs and, where possible, assisting with accommodating the HMA wide shortfall. Securing sustainable economic growth Protecting key gaps between urban areas and settlements Solihull MBC - 47 - November 2016
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