Plans for community ambulance station in Marston Green.

PLANS have been unveiled to create a community ambulance station in Marston Green.
West Midlands Ambulance Service has drawn up proposals to create a base for paramedics at Pinewood Business Park in Coleshill Road.
Under plans, a paramedic and rapid response vehicle will be stationed at the site 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
There will also be parking space at the station for a second vehicle.
The application, submitted to Solihull Council last month, is part of the ambulance service’s new strategy for responding to 999 calls.
The Make Ready initiative, first announced two years ago, caused widespread controversy and led to concerns that response times would increase.
As part of the project, the ambulance stations that traditionally served the borough – based at Chelmsley Wood and Hermitage Road, Solihull – were sold off.
The maintenance of the fleet was centralised to a new hub at Erdington, where crews would collect their vehicles and travel to the new community stations, from where they would respond to emergencies.
Within months of the system being implemented in 2013, the ambulance service was forced to make “tweaks” to the set-up and reinstated twocrewed ambulances at locations including Shirley and Olton.
Now a new community station will open at Marston Green, helping to improve the service in the north of the borough.
A WMAS spokesman said: “This is designed to improve the speed of response to patients in the area.
“If approved, work on the building would start with the intention of it being up and running within eight weeks.”
The planning committee is expected to consider the application later this year.

From Issue 2 of Other Side of Solihull. Click here for the complete newspaper