Council planners have given the green light to designs for a new embankment to carry the HS2 line around Balsall Common.

Plans signed off by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC) show the Lavender Hall Embankment will be 250 metres long and be 55 metres wide at its widest point.

Running parallel to the existing West Coast Mainline, it will be eight metres high at the end which will connect to the new viaduct.

At the northern end, it will be at the existing ground level.

Also included in the scheme is a concrete bridge to carry a farm track over Bayley's Brook. This will be six metres long and 4.5 metres wide.

The HS2 Act decrees the embankment will be created, with SMBC only able to comment on certain elements of the design.

Signing off on the plans, a council report said "subject to the future planting alongside the proposed landscaping earthworks" the scheme was "acceptable".

SMBC also said the scheme would "provide an acceptable response to the new landscape being created whilst, where applicable, preserving the local environment and local amenity, reducing impacts on road safety or the free flow of traffic and preserving sites of historic or archaeological interest or nature conservation importance".

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See the full application here.