A SOLIHULL business park has been given another seven years to expand – but fewer buildings are expected on the site.A developer were given seven years by councillors in 2002 to come up with detailed plans for Solihull Business Park in Monkspath Hall Road.
Yet they now say they need more time to submit the plans and proposed buildings will be seven instead of 11. See a map here.
Two blocks at the entrance, opposite the former UCI cinema, have been built with a further inside the site and permission is already in place for a car showroom next to them.
Developer David Ward will give further cash for roadworks to cope with the extra traffic.
Four letters opposed the plan. Complaints include fears the area is overdeveloped, ‘horrific’ traffic and affect on neighbouring properties. Buildings would be 18m high.
Yet Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council’s planning committee backed a planning officer’s recommendation that the plan be approved this week.
The officer’s report says the development ‘would make a significant contribution towards the
provision of the Borough’s employment land portfolio’.
Buildings will ‘respect the character and appearance of the surrounding area, whilst being well separated from nearby dwellings’.
It said highway works and a ‘travel plan’ will ‘enable mitigation of the proposal caused through increased traffic’.
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