Work on Knowle housing estate

CONSTRUCTION is continuing on a major new 88-home development off Hampton Road in Knowle.

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Tilehouse Green Lane homes approved

CONTROVERSIAL plans for 12 bungalows to the back of houses in Tilehouse Green Lane, Knowle have been approved.

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Developer moves on Bentley Heath homes

A DEVELOPER has begun to market homes for a development in a field off Four Ashes Road, Bentley Heath.

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Knowle 88 homes plan approved

PLANS for 88 homes off Hampton Road, Knowle, were approved by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council's planning committee last night. Click here for background details.

Approve Knowle 88-homes plan, planning officer says

PLANS for 88 homes to the back of Knowle Primary School should be approved this week, a council planning officer has said.

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Four Ashes homes plan approved

A PLAN for 44 homes off Four Ashes Road, Bentley Heath was approved by councillors last night. Click here for background details.

£26,000-a-year benefit families snub council help

MORE than 45 Solihull families who get over £26,000 a year in benefits have spurned council offers of help about a forthcoming cap on payments, it has been revealed.

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Approve Bentley Heath OAP flats plan, council report says

A PLAN for flats for OAPs at a Bentley Heath field should be approved next week, a council planning officer has said.

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Plan for 88 homes in Knowle

A PLAN has been submitted for 88 homes on fields to the back of Knowle Primary School.

   

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Homes plan for Knowle farm approved

CONTROVERSIAL plans to turn a Knowle farm into houses have been approved after an 11-year battle.

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Knowle Society fears over Four Ashes homes plan

A PLAN for homes in Four Ashes Road, Bentley Heath will add to traffic problems, The Knowle Society has warned, as final plans for new housing in the two villages come forward.

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Homes plan for Hockley Heath paddock

PLANS for six homes on a field near St Thomas Church in Hockley Heath have been submitted.

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£100k bid to knock down nursery for homes

A DEVELOPER wants to drop its obligation to provide affordable homes at a former Dorridge nursery, and has offered planners £100,000 as an alternative.

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'Garden grabbing' home plans return

A PLAN has been put forward to build a house in a Dorridge garden – after a bid to knock down the house for homes was rejected.

The new plan would build a two storey, five-bedroomed detached house with basement in the garden of 62 Avenue Road, fronting Spring Coppice Road.

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council’s planning committee will be asked to make a decision on the plan, pictured below, tomorrow night.

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Dorridge street 'second most expensive'

TEMPLE Road in Dorridge is the second most expensive street in the Midlands according to a survey, The Solihull News reports.

Residents oppose 'garden grabbing' plans

DORRIDGE residents are fighting ‘garden grabbing’ plans to knock down two homes for four.

They said the plans for Avenue Road (pictured, left) and Knowle Wood Road (pictured, right) were out of keeping with the area.

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Warning over Knowle housing plans

THE Knowle Society has hit out at massive house building plans for the village, warning it will put a strain on schools and health services.


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The group said the plan for 340 homes on three sites (see map, above) would swell the village’s 10,000 population by 1,000.

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Council: Knowle school housing plans 'defensible'

BUILDING 100 homes on a field at the back of Knowle Primary School is ‘defensible’ council bosses say.

The council's map of the full plans. Click here for full size.

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council says the site off Hampton Road has ‘excellent access to local services and facilities’.

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Consultation on massive homes plans next month

A CONSULTATION on plans that could see hundreds of homes built on green fields in Knowle and Bentley heath will be consulted on next month.


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Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council confirmed it will begin the consultation on what development should be allowed throughout the borough at the end of September.

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Dorridge homes plan deferred

A DECISION on a controversial plan for five homes next to Dorridge Cricket Club has been deferred.

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council’s planning committee deferred taking a decision for the development off Grange Road.

The plan would demolish a garden nursery glass house and build five homes in a U-shaped courtyard.

Three residents objected and the council’s planning officer said it was ‘inappropriate development in the Green Belt’ and ‘is contrary to both development plan and national policies’.

But they recommended approval as it ‘provides significant material benefits in terms of visual amenity, openness and landscape’.

The nursery would be kept and possibly extended, they said in a report.

It said: “But given the sustainable location of the site for housing development these benefits cumulatively amount to the very special circumstances needed to outweigh the harm that would arise to the Green Belt.”


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Objections warned of its position in the Green Belt and ‘nuisance and loss or privacy’. Access would be off Grange Road.

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