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Lanchester 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. An important principal for the local area strategies was that they did not include proposals for intervention in existing housing areas.  

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:

  • The new Lanchester School has opened
  • Park Hall School has been redeveloped under the Building Schools for the future (BSF) programme and opened in October 2008

Residential developments and our improvements to green space

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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 regeneration 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 Lanchester 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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