Decision details

Wolverhampton Response to South Staffordshire Plan Issues and Options Consultation

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

To approve the City of Wolverhampton Council response to the South Staffordshire Plan Issues and Options Consultation

Decision:

1. That the following principles be approved as the basis of the Council’s response to the South Staffordshire Local Plan Issues and Options consultation:

a. Support for the preferred housing growth option of local housing need plus 4,000 homes of Greater Birmingham and Black Country Housing Market Area need;

b. Support for a mix of spatial options which deliver a proportionate amount of housing on the edge of the Black Country in line with the Housing Market Area Strategic Growth Study areas of search, subject to the findings of the joint South Staffordshire and Black Country Green Belt Review and other evidence;

c. Support for the sites submitted by the Council to South Staffordshire as part of the “Call for Sites”, as approved by Cabinet Resources Panel on 2 October 2018;

d. Support for the employment growth option to allocate additional employment land to help address unmet cross boundary employment land needs for the Black Country, in locations which are the most accessible by a choice of means of transport to the Wolverhampton workforce;

e. Request for acknowledgement that, if approved, the West Midlands Interchange application would contribute towards unmet Black Country need for employment land and logistics provision;

f. Support for the existing Brinsford Strategic Park and Ride site allocation and request that this project and other supporting infrastructure which increases access to the rail network should be promoted in the new Plan;

g. Request that the impact of developments on the wider transport network is assessed, and that developments minimise trip generation through all available mechanisms;

h. Request that development links effectively to the strategic transport network and avoids excessive pressure on sensitive transport links;

i.    Request that any development on the edge of Wolverhampton take into consideration any health, education and environmental implications.

Report author: Michele Ross

Publication date: 13/12/2018

Date of decision: 12/12/2018

Decided at meeting: 12/12/2018 - Cabinet

Effective from: 20/12/2018

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