CHANGES to Sainsbury’s Dorridge store including the
relocation of a substation have been approved despite concerns from some
neighbours.
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The store has won Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council for
a series of changes.
These include the relocation of the substation within the
service yard and a new hedge screen in front of it.
It will also narrow a footway on the south side of Forest
Road from two metres to 1.8m.
There will also be new steps by the customer entrance “to
provide an alternative walking up/down the slight gradient to/from the store
entrance”.
A war memorial is planned to the steps.
The firm will also move trolley bays and changes white lines
in the car park to “improve radii and flow of vehicles within the car park”.
But a plan to lower a proposed brick wall around the car
park from two metres to 1.2m has been dropped.
A total 12 residents objected with concerns including what
some said would be a lack of landscaping.
One said: “The building takes up every inch of its site and
there is now no longer the space available to provide a bank onto which
planting can be introduced.”
The council’s planning committee approved the plan lastmonth.
In a report to members, a council planning officer said: “It
is considered that these proposals secure a high quality public realm around
the supermarket development and with time will mature to provide a seamless
part of the streetscene.”
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