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The group said the plan for land off Jacobean Lane, to cut into land off the canal, would damage the Green Belt and cause traffic problems.
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council threw out the plan in December but an appeal means the national Planning Inspectorate will now make the final decision.
The society warned the plan would have a ‘significant and deleterious impact on the
Green Belt’ with up to 140, 21 metre long boats and 40 parking spaces.
It also warned against the loss of agricultural land and said the amount of earth moving ‘would significantly alter the landscape’.
Lighting would ‘have an impact of the dark nature of this area’ and the development would have an impact on nearby Grade II listed Grove Farm, which was amongst the council’s reasons for refusal.
The developer had described the plan as ‘like a car park for boats’, leading the society planning committee Leighton Jones, to warn: “A car park covering the same area would never be acceptable in the green belt.”
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It adds: “The inevitable increase in traffic, almost all of which would use the Warwick Road and Jacobean Lane to access the site, would create an increased nuisance for local residents and add to the particular difficulties of traffic entering and leaving Jacobean Lane at its junction with the Warwick Road.”
The society said its comments had been ‘amplified’ as the council lost objections made before it made its decision. It had planned to pass these to the Inspectorate.
Another marina plan, for Stripes Hill Farm off the Warwick Road in Knowle, was also rejected by the authority in December.
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