The Vision
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Regenerating North Solihull is a project set up to transform the three wards of Chelmsley Wood, Smith's Wood and Kingshurst & Fordbridge by improving homes, shops, schools, health and community facilities, transport, the environment and creating jobs.
This is one of the UK's biggest ever regeneration programmes and in it's lifetime aims to deliver:
- New homes for sale
- New affordable housing
- 10 new or remodelled, state-of-the-art primary schools
- Up to 5 new or improved village centres
- New health care facilities
- New leisure facilities
- Employment and training opportunities
- A positive change to almost 40,000 people's lives
- Mixed use developments
- Local environment and transport improvements
- Employment opportunities
So why are these changes needed? click here
Employment
Supporting businesses, which will provide more jobs for the area, and improving the local trading environment is one of the most important aspects of the Regenerating North Solihull project. Have a look through these pages to find out more.
New Housing
There are lots of new homes for sale and rent being built by Bellway Homes (one of the Regenerating North Solihull partners). Some of the schemes are at there early planning stage and some are much further along the process and have been built.
How the project is funded
The Regenerating North Solihull project works almost like a recycling system. Funding is generated through Solihull Council selling land to the North Solihull Partnership. The Partnership then sells this land, once planning permission is granted, to Bellway Homes.
Strategic Framework
The strategy that underpins all of the regeneration is called the strategic framework. This strategy which was originally developed in 2004 was reviewed in late 2008 and we spoke to residents and stakeholders about our findings in early 2009.
Green Space
In North Solihull there are a lot of play areas and open spaces and we know they are really important to local communities. But a lot of them are of poor quality and do not meet the diverse needs of the community.
Design Code
With so many aspects of the project needing to be worked up at the same time, we brought all of the design and development consultants together to share ideas and formulate a Design Code.