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Alcott 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 2006/07 we developed the South Area Strategy, over 550 residents attended our events and gave valuable feedback on our proposals. 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.
Alcott (a) and Chelmsley Wood Town Centre (b)
a)The overall focus for the cluster is Chelmsley Wood town centre but it also includes the new primary school on the St. Anne's site.
- There are proposals to combine Alcott Hall Primary School with Coleshill Heath Primary School on a site yet to be determined.
- The cluster includes main distributor roads – Chelmsley Road & Moorend Avenue, which together with other key bus routes along Greenlands Road & Berwicks Lane results in good accessibility.
b) It also includes opportunities to improve areas of strategic green space and the River Cole corridor.- Chelmsley Wood Town Centre should be viewed in a slightly different context from the other clusters.
- It is the main centre in North Solihull and has benefited from work already undertaken by existing projects.
- The Town Centre Cluster will seek to maximise investment and become a more attractive destination.
- The cluster can provide development that complements its commercial and community activities and supports its links to the public transport network.
Delivering these changes will require partnership working with a wide range of land holding interests, service providers and the community.
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 Alcott 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.