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Larger scale developments offer the opportunity for significant infrastructure
improvements;
Provision for some smaller sites will assist the early delivery of housing during the
Plan period and support existing services;
A totally dispersed pattern of growth would be unlikely to deliver the scale of growth
required and be more likely to result in adverse impacts associated with piecemeal
development which would affect a greater area.
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This approach would thus discourage development that is:
Isolated from any settlement;
A disproportionate addition to a settlement that only has a limited range of facilities;
Occurs in relatively less accessible locations;
Site Selection
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Complementary to the spatial strategy is the approach to site selection. This is explained in
more detail in the topic paper. But the principles of it are essentially that when assessing
individual sites, that a higher priority is given to brownfield opportunities in the urban
area/settlements and the least priority is given to isolated greenfield sites in highly
performing areas of the Green Belt.
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By applying the spatial strategy and the site selection methodology, results in development
opportunities coming forward across a range of the options that were identified as follows:
Growth Option E (The UK Central Hub Area & HS2):
Land to the east of the NEC – the HS2 Interchange site
Growth Option F – Limited Expansion of Rural Villages/Settlements:
Land to the east of Hampton-in-Arden
Land to the west of Meriden
Land to the south west of Hockley Heath
Land north, south and south east of Balsall Common
Land to the north east of Knowle
Land east of Catherine-de-Barnes
Growth Option G – Large Scale Urban Extensions:
Land to the north east of Damson Parkway
Land south of Shirley (south of Dog Kennel Lane)
Land south of Shirley (Whitlocks End Farm)
Land east of Solihull (between Grand Union Canal and Hampton Lane)
Growth Option G –Significant Expansion of Rural Villages/Settlements:
Land west of Dickens Heath
Land south of Knowle
Land east of Balsall Common
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