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A draft “Masterplan” outlining an ambitious vision for how to further improve Perry Barr over the next two decades has been published by Birmingham City Council. The Perry Barr 2040 Masterplan aims to maximise opportunities presented by the existing qualities of the area including the current £700million+ package of major projects being delivered in the…
Birmingham’s diversity, creativity and spirit will be celebrated in a new artwork due to be unveiled in the city centre later this week. Forward Together is a reimagining of the city’s crest being raised by a line of 25 figures, designed by artist Luke Perry and made by a team of his friends, some of…
A multi-million pound regeneration of Birmingham’s city centre – which includes bringing the ‘Floozie in the Jacuzzi’ back to life as a fountain – is set to be approved by Cabinet next week. The full business case for the first phase of improvements – to be completed before the city welcomes around half a million…
Britain’s new high-speed railway, HS2, has received the go-ahead from Birmingham City Council to begin the transformative refurbishment of the Old Curzon Street Station, marking the next phase of work around the new terminus in central Birmingham. The agreement with the Council who own the building, enables a long-term lease by HS2, with work due…
Birmingham city centre was packed with thousands of ‘Black Lives Matter’ protestors on Thursday afternoon to show solidarity for George Floyd, who died as a result of US police brutality on May 25 in Minnesota. The shocking death of the black victim, who kept pleading ‘I can’t breathe’ as a white officer pressed his knee…
A protest is being planned on Thursday in Victoria Square, Birmingham, over the brutal murder of George Floyd by US police. This protest, which takes place outside the Council House, comes days after the peaceful demonstration in Soho Road, Handsworth.