Planning Policy and Proposals

One of the main responsibilities of the Sustainable Development Team is producing planning policies and proposals for Solihull(Forward Planning).

This has over the last decade taken the form of a Unitary Development Plan (UDP).

In September 2004 a new planning system was introduced whereby UDPs will gradually be replaced by a folder of different planning policy and proposal documents known as a Local Development Framework (LDF).

Associated with the UDP is a monitoring function, the results of which are used at a regional and national level. Members of the team work with other local authorities within the West Midlands Region and Warwickshire to achieve this.

The policy planning team is also involved in a range of functions such as the formulation of Strategies for Canals, Nature Conservation and Countryside, a Green Spaces Strategy and has a strategic input into transportation policies and economic and environmental issues.

Other functions undertaken by the Team include landscape/ecology, sustainability including education for sustainable development (ESD) and local land charges.

Contact Details

For more information please contact the Sustainable Development Team

Telephone: 0121 704 6394

Email: sustainabledevelopment@solihull.gov.uk