News that Solihull Police will move to take up a vacant building, The Priory, within the council house complex is good news. It means there is a command unit headquarters in and around the town centre and this will provide reassurance to many people. It also means that years of concern will now be coming … More SOLIHULL POLICE STATION – Great news
I have been notified of this application to demolish the existing police station and replace it with offices. Planning application PL/2026/01091/PPFL refers (hopefully the link below will direct you to it). When I can confirm what is happening to relocate the police station I will update you. You can read all the submitted documents via … More SOLIHULL POLICE STATION – UPDATE
Another piece of excellent news for the town centre is a ‘soon to be’ planning application by ‘Heartwood Collection’ to transform the former Missoula Luna to become ‘The Muddy Fox’ on the High Street, a contemporary ‘pub with rooms’ in the listed building. Solihull Council has announced it has entered an agreement with the award-winning Heartwood … More THE MUDDY FOX COMES TO SOLIHULL TOWN CENTRE
The councils Education Sufficiency Strategy (2025-2028) is to be adopted at the Children and Education Decision Session next week. The full report and appendices can be reached via this link: https://democracy.solihull.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx… The strategy is a rolling one, updated regularly, to take into account the numbers of pupils in our schools and how planning for school … More Solihull Education Sufficiency Strategy
The go-ahead for the redevelopment of Solihull’s town centre is set for approval at its planning committee meeting on Friday 6 February. It is important to recognise at the outset this has only been achieved through the decision we made to purchase Mell Square a few years ago. Different owners in the past 15 years … More SOLIHULL TOWN CENTRE REDEVELOPMENT
Two developers were recently given permission for the development of some 1200 houses on Dog Kennel Lane, Solihull, This is within Blythe ward. I have provided links to the planning application below (also my original 2019 petition objecting to the site being in the councils local plan!) The site navigated the Planning Inspectors ‘Examination in … More Section 106 Funding from Developments
Planning application PL/2025/02393/PPFL relates to the above and asks to change number 19, Rowthorn Drove, Monkspath, Solihull to become a children’s home. I have copied the below text from the planning statement submitted by the applicants: The proposed home will accommodate two children. The property, a four-bedroom house with all bedrooms on first floor as … More Planning application – change of use to Conversion of house (C3) into children’s home (C2).
Petition to object link shown in the text. Fellow ward Councillor Keith Green and I met with the promoters of this site a couple of weeks ago and we can now inform residents that a formal planning application has been submitted. PL/2025/02373/PPOL refers to: Outline development for residential development of up to 120 dwellings, open space, landscaping, … More LAND EAST OF JOSEPH HOUSE, STRATFORD ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOLIHULL
Taylor Wimpey (developers) are consulting on proposals for some 120 new homes on ‘Land East of Joseph House, Stratford Road’. Full details about their proposals can be found via their dedicated website, where you can also have ‘your say’: http://www.tw-stratfordroad.co.uk This site accompanies the developments off Dog Kennel Lane that received outline planning permission last … More LAND EAST OF JOSPEH HOUSE – STRATFORD ROAD, SOLIHULL
Blythe ward councillors, Keith Green and Ken Hawkins have requested Solihull Planners to examine how trees and hedges on green belt land can be protected from destruction by developers who may wish to circumnavigate planning niceties. In a letter to Mark Andrews, Solihull’s Head of Planning Design and Engagement, they refer to an incident a … More PROTECTION OF OUR TREES AND HEDGEROWS:
Ken Hawkins 