Village News Focus
THE HOUSEBUILDERS’ D
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epending on your point of view, this map could look like a fantastic opportunity to expand a
village into a vibrant near-town . . . or it could leave you feeling surrounded, like beleaguered Britain in the Dad’s Army title sequence. Whichever way you look at it, the red shapes on the left – all currently in the Green Belt – could mean an enormous change. They make up around 2,200 new
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homes. To put that into perspective, the whole parish area currently has around 2,350 homes and Alvechurch village 1,700. Doubling the size of a settlement is something that should be planned very carefully, with an over-arching vision to improve the lives of present and future villagers (or townies!) That is the aim of the Alvechurch Par- ish Neighbourhood Plan (APNP), which is being prepared under powers created by the Localism Act of 2011. It has been six years in the making,
so far, and while these proposals by developers have no doubt been in the pipeline far longer, it is the consultation on the APNP that has brought them together as a stark vision for Alvechurch parish. And there may well be other
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potential development sites yet to be revealed: the ones here are those raised by developers in the process of submit- ting their responses to the APNP. It may come as a shock to many vil-
lagers to find, for example, that the view they currently enjoy from Alvechurch of
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KEY Gallagher Estates: 128 acres, 1,300
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homes Gallagher Estates: 70 acres total, 32 acres for 300 homes Taylor Wimpey: 32 acres, 250 homes Barratt Homes: 15 acres, 180 homes Private consortium: 7 acres, 55 homes Private consortium: Unknown James Christopher Homes: Unknown.
(The brown areas show the present built-up residential areas. The representation of Bor- desley is to a smaller scale than Alvechurch.)
16 The Village October 2018
Callow Hill Road
Birmingham Road
Birmingham Road
Birmingham & Worcester Canal
Swan Street
M42
Alvechurch Bypass
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