Coventry City Council has objected to plans for a nearly 1,000-home development in Balsall Common.

Harris Strategic Land and Colchurch Properties has applied for planning permission for the new village neighbourhood on green space between Station Road and Waste Lane.

The scheme - put forward to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC) - would introduce a local centre including a care home/retirement accommodation, community buildings, a primary school and a pre-school.

Up to 40 per cent of the units on the 28-hectare site will be provided as affordable, which comes to 369 homes.

But the city council said more traffic modelling needs to be done to show how it would affect local roads if the scheme is built.

Coventry is one of the groups being consulted on the scheme as it is a neighbouring planning authority.

The council initially objected in August 2023 as it had not been shown the scheme "would not have a severe impact on the operation and safety of Coventry's local highway network".

The masterplan for the site (image via planning application)

There were also concerns about the public transport strategy and travel plan.

While a technical note has now been submitted, showing the junctions the scheme could affect, no other work such as traffic modelling has been done to assess it further, the council's response said.

The council wants the effects on junctions in between the A45 / Tile Hill Lane and Hearsall Common / Queensland Avenue / Earlsdon Avenue North to be analysed, and junctions on Torrington Avenue to be looked into.

The council's response also refers to other plans for Balsall Common including Pheasant Oak Lane and Frog Lane that have been submitted after the huge plans for land at Station Road. The authority said it needs the impact of the combined developments as well as each one individually to be assessed as well.

The new neighbourhood would include affordable and retirement housing, plus a community building, a primary school and public open space according to the application. 

If approved, the site would feature a range of housing types from one-bedroom apartments to larger four-bedroom detached houses.

Public space for a convenience store, a café, a leisure centre and a doctor's surgery is included in the plans.

Several new roads would be built including a T-junction off Station Road and a reconfigured Station Road/Hallmeadow Road roundabout to allow access.

See the full application here.