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Woodlands Cluster

 

The Story So Far

The Strategic Framework, was agreed by Solihull Council in February 2005 after we consulted residents in 2004. It sets out how the Partnership intends to improve the physical and social infrastructure of North Solihull through major investment in schools, Village Centres, transport and green space. For more information click here

In 2007 we developed through consultation the North Area Strategy. The purpose of local area strategies is to  supplement the Strategic framework and take forward the principles of the Strategic Framework, allowing early activity in locations where a master plan will not be produced for a number of years.

The production of the North Area Strategy followed a two stage consultation process, dealing with following issues.

•        The schools programme;
•         Green space; and
•         Early housing sites ahead of neighbourhood planning.

 Significant investment has already been committed to this cluster:

• A newly built Forest Oak & Merstone Special Schools
• A newly built Woodlands Campus
• A newly built Smiths Wood Sports College
• The St John the Baptist Catholic Primary school is located in this area, and it is intended that this school will in the future, combine with St Anthony's Catholic School.

Residential and green space improvements

Woodlands Highway residential and green space improvements for more information click here

New approach to planning the regeneration

Following the strategic framework review which was agreed in June 2009 the new way of planning the regeneration is an approach based on Clusters. The cluster approach focuses on bringing forward regeneratiojn activities centred around large scale investments such as new schools and villages centres.

Spatial master planning is the process in which we bring forward the physical regeneration for an area. In the future a spatial master plan for the Woodlands Cluster will be developed alongside the community and stakeholders and everyone within the cluster will have an opportunity to shape the spatial master plan for that area

 

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