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Derbyniwyd: 26/02/2025

Ymatebydd: Earlswood & Forshaw Heath Residents’ Association

During the period of the last (current) Local Plan, we wrote to you pointing out that Solihull MBC has been required to take a substantial number of houses that Birmingham could not accommodate from its LP. In excess of 12,000 have been built and most have been on the west side of Solihull as that is/was the only Green Belt space left to develop.

Solihull has, as you’re well aware, built right up to the District boundary and we are now the centre of shortcuts and rat-runs to avoid the congestion in central Solihull. You may have consulted with SMBC on this issue, in which case, you will be acutely aware of the developments but you have done nothing to alleviate our consequential issues such as the volumes of traffic using our lanes and the resultant traffic jams and deterioration of the road surfaces in general and very deep grooves created at the sides of the narrow lanes. The cross-boundary consultations with Solihull MBC, in particular, should have prepared SDC for this and a plan put in place to cover the period of the current Core Strategy.

The same issues apply to the developments in Bromsgrove and Redditch Districts as we’re being enclosed from the north and west too, although the traffic volumes are less.