Solihull UDP Unitary Development Plan

The Forward Planning team is primarily responsible for the production of planning policies and proposals for Solihull. This has, over the last decade, taken the form of a Unitary Development Plan (UDP)

A new planning system has now been introduced (September 2004) whereby UDP will gradually be replaced by a folder of different planning policy and proposal documents known as the Local Development Framework.

Until such time as it is fully replaced by new planning policy and proposal documents prepared under the new planning system, the UDP will remain the key planning policy document.

The UDP identifies adequate land to meet future housing and business needs. It contains policies to guide transportation, shopping, recreational development and measures to protect the Green Belt and countryside from speculative development, as well as ensuring that nature conservation interests are protected.

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

Solihull Unitary Development Plan

The Solihull Unitary Development Plan (UDP) 2006 is the Council's statutory land-use plan which designates land to meet the Borough's housing and business requirements, contains policies that guide and control development, designates Green Belt and contains other policies on a range of issues such as transport, the environment, countryside, retail centres, recreation, mineral and waste. It also has a fundamental role of balancing the pressure for development against the need to protect the environment.

The Solihull Unitary Development Plan 2006 is the first review of the UDP adopted in 1997, and covers the period 2001-2011. Preparation of the 2006 UDP began in 1998 and, following a public local inquiry in 2004, the Plan was finally adopted in February 2006.

The UDP 2006 comprises:

• Written Statement (see attachments )
• Sustainabilty Appraisal (see attachments )
• Explanatory leaflet (see attachments)
• Proposals Map - PDF version (see attachments)
• Proposals Map. The proposals contained in the Solihull UDP 2006 are set out on the Interactive Proposals Map.

View the documents produced during the Review Process

Documents associated with the UDP are Supplementary Planning Guidance documents and Development Briefs:

Supplementary Planning Guidance

Development Briefs - Former Powergen Site

Unitary Development Plan documents available for sale

The adopted Unitary Development Plan 2006 : £30 plus postage and packing if posted (£3.50 in UK)

To purchase, call at Solihull Connect, Touchwood, Solihull or send a cheque (payable to Solihull MBC) for the appropriate amount to:

Planning Services - Forward Planning (Ref CHJ)
P.O.Box 18 Council House
SOLIHULL
West Midlands
B91 9QS

Contact Details

Further details about the Solihull UDP can be obtained from the Forward Planning Team.

Telephone: 0121704 6394

Email: sustainabledevelopment@solihull.gov.uk

• Inspectors Report of Inquiry
  The Council received the report of the Inspector who conducted the Public Local Inquiry into the UDP review on 29th April 2005.
• Modifications
  The Inspector's Report contains 242 recommendations relating to specific policies, proposals and paragraphs within the Plan.
• Public Local Inquiry
  The First Secretary of State appointed Mr Stephen J Pratt BA(Hons) MRTPI to hold a public Local Inquiry into objections to the Solihull UDP Review.
• Review Process
  In October 1998 the Council agreed to review the UDP 1997.
• Revised Deposit First Review Maps
  As a consequence of objections to the UDP First Review, changes in Government policy since the First Deposit and emerging Regional Planning Guidance, the Council prepared a Revised Deposit, on deposit from 16 June 2003, until 28 July 2003.