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Since our earlier article, Solihull MBC have today provided a short response to the Inspectors’ 11th February 2022 letter, which can be found Solihull Local Plan – Inspectors Letter | solihull.gov.uk

A letter from the Inspectors tasked with the examination of the Solihull Local Plan has now been published on Solihull MBC website The Inspectors have confirmed that they are still considering the ‘soundness’ of the Local Plan but are satisfied that the Council has complied with the duty to cooperate in the Plan’s preparation. The Inspectors have confirmed that in their opinion, the earliest date for adoption of the Local Plan will be during 2022/23 and with that in mind, the

As the City awaits the hosting of the Commonwealth Games in the summer, in the meantime, Birmingham City Council have been busy preparing a masterplan for Perry Barr. Birmingham City Council have adopted the ‘Perry Barr 2040: A Vision for Legacy Masterplan’ as a non-statutory policy document. It sets out a vision for the Perry Barr area which seeks to maximise the legacy of the current public sector investment and the Commonwealth Games. The vision is for it to ‘become a pl

Birmingham City Council and Sandwell Council Cabinets have just approved the ‘Smethwick to Birmingham Corridor Framework’. Birmingham City Council are adopting the Framework as a Supplementary Planning Document. The Development Framework covers the corridor of the Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line Canal and Dudley Road/Soho Way between Ladywood and Smethwick Galton Bridge Station. It outlines a vision and guiding principles for the area, sets out a transport strategy a

We also act for clients who may want to object to planning proposals neighbouring their houses, land or property? We make representations to planning applications on behalf of clients all over the country. In the past, these have covered many different levels and scales of development - ranging from objections to multi-million pound mixed-use redevelopment in the heart of London to small domestic extensions in the Midlands. Where clients are concerned about a development that

We are pleased to confirm that we have recently secured reserved matters approval on behalf of our clients for the erection of 8 dwellings in Sedgley, within Dudley Metropolitan Borough. Tyler Parkes was successful in obtaining Outline planning permission in December 2018 for the development of 8 dwellings on a former contractors’ yard, with matters of layout, access and scale approved at that stage, leaving appearance and landscaping as the reserved matters. The reserved mat