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Housing Market Area
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Solihull is one of 14 local authorities within the Greater Birmingham Housing Market Area
(GBHMA). The Birmingham Development Plan (adopted January 2017) recognises that
there is a shortfall of 37,900 homes, which needs to be met in the wider GBHMA up to 2031.
Under the Duty to Cooperate, the Council has been working with its partners to address this
shortfall.
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Through the Local Plan Review process undertaken to date, the Council had indicated it
would test the ability to accommodate 2,000 dwellings from the shortfall up to 2031. Now
that the Council has tested and established an appropriate capacity it is able to confirm the
contribution to the HMA as the difference between the identified supply and the LHN. Thus
the contribution to the HMA is 2,105 being the difference between 15,017 and 12,912. Thus
15,017 will be the housing requirement for the plan, this equates to an average of 938
dwellings per annum.
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The figure of 12,912 was used rather than 13,056 (the HEDNA UK Central Hub ‘uplift figure’)
as this represents the minimum needs of the Borough as determined by the standard
methodology. The occupation of the additional dwellings needed as a result of the UKC Hub
uplift would be as a result of additional net migration into the Borough (as it is above the
Borough’s own demographic needs) from elsewhere and to have added this to the
contribution to the HMA shortfall would result in double counting.
Putting the Level of Growth into Context
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Solihull is recognised for its high quality environment which attracts residents and investors
to the sub-region. These include green infrastructure assets such as the Arden Landscape,
the River Blythe SSSI, tree-lined suburbs and principal parks as well as major transport and
economic assets such as UK Central, the M42 corridor and forthcoming HS2 Interchange.
Growth needs to be managed at a sustainable rate so that the success of these assets are
not compromised and can continue to deliver their economic and ecosystem services.
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The proposed level of growth is significantly more than previously planned for and is
recognition that the SLP 2013 used a constrained figure. The Council is now not only
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