SLP KDBH Extracts - Flipbook - Page 16
Provide a natural landscape that is attractive for relocation of business
Impact of congestion on motorways, the strategic highway network and rail from
additional growth/housing.
Impact of pressure for development on the quality of the environment.
Need to provide opportunities around workplaces for healthy and active lifestyles.
Need for high speed digital connectivity to enhance competitiveness.
Need to ensure that the “urbs in rure” is preserved in Solihull to drive inward
investment into the West Midlands.
Solihull Town Centre
Widening the range of uses and activities to maintain and enhance attractiveness
whilst providing for a greater range of needs.
Impact of congestion.
Maintaining the attractiveness of the Town Centre’s historic core and parkland
setting.
Allow for restructuring post COVID and the new economic landscape
Shirley Town Centre
Pressure from out of centre retail development.
Poor quality shopping environment.
Impact of high level of through traffic and congestion.
Allow for restructure post COVID
Chelmsley Wood Town Centre
Dated in appearance and in need of environmental improvements.
Broader diversity of uses needed to improve attraction to shoppers.
Maintain its local importance.
Allow for restructure post COVID
Objectives
Maximise the capacity and benefits of the recently extended runway at Birmingham
airport, including through enhancing the passenger experience.
Support the continued success of other key economic and employment assets such
as National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham and Blythe Valley Business Parks and
Jaguar Land Rover whilst maintaining the quality of the environment and managing
congestion.
Support smaller businesses and employers in the Borough.
Support the continued success of Solihull Town Centre whilst maintaining the quality
of its environment and managing congestion.
Encourage investment into Shirley and Chelmsley Wood Town Centres to improve
competitiveness and the shopping environment and support long term sustainability.
Revitalising town and local centres to meet the emerging challenges of Post COVID
Britain, including their role as destinations for retail and leisure.
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