Background
Blythe Valley Countryside Park forms part of the Blythe Valley Park, a high quality Business Park developed jointly by Solihull MBC, Doughty Hanson & Co Real Estate and Liberty Property Trust and commenced in August 1998. The Park lies to the south of the River Blythe, a tributary of the Tame, within an area described in the Warwickshire Landscape Guidelines as ‘Arden Pastures’. The Countryside Park covers some 40 hectares of publicly accessible open space, and has been designed to include a rich mosaic of nature conservation woodland, grassland, hedgerows, streams and wetland, at the edge of the Business Park. 
The River Blythe carries the designation of a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). It has a range of natural structural features such as riffles, pools, small cliffs and meanders. .
The river supports a diverse invertebrate community with a range of mollusc, oligochaetes, caddisflies and dragonflies. The presence of macrophytes and invertebrates is due, in large part, to past water quality and flow patterns.
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