Coming Soon – new posts in the pipeline

• Listed Buildings in the city - A heritage to celebrate!
• Bus Stop Design – What should these provide in the future?
• and more as they arise.

Leave a comment below of your suggestions for further subjects of city centre interest. They would be appreciated.

Keep visiting the blog to keep you in the know!

Geoff Caine

Metro Line 1 Visited

The first stage of Centro’s West Midlands tram line was opened in 1999 and runs between Birmingham Snow Hill Station and Wolverhampton Centre. I travelled on this route recently and was surprised how fast, yet  pleasant and relaxing it was!

Library of Birmingham – Hoardings Appearance

Have you any ideas as to how the hoardings surrounding the development site of the new Library can best be disguised?

Centenary Square is one of the great assets of Birmingham. Many thousands of visitors walk along it every day.

We cannot have an eyesore there for the next 3 years! Many important conferences and concerts will hopefully take place around Brindley Place, but dependent on the desirability and appearance of the area..

There is a formative meeting next Tuesday between the Broad Street BID (Business Development District board) and the council Officers and Carrilion developers to decide how to decorate the hoardings.

Please submit your ideas as comments below, otherwise the ideas of a very few people will decide the look for 3 years!

Geoff Caine

If so, enter a coment below.

Morrisons Planning Application for ex Edgbaston Shopping Centre Site

Morrisons Supermarkets has applied for planning permission for a large supermarket and other shops and offices just off Five Ways, Edgbaston……

Library of Birmingham – Digging out the Basement

The digging out of the basement of the library will commence next week.

This follows the installation during February of concrete piles below ground which form the foundations.

Simon Dingle, Carrilion’s Operations Director, says that this stage is expected to take 12 weeks. During this time they will  be taking lorries on site to load them with earth which they will transport to another site.

Simon says the lorries should not become stacked up along Cambridge Street.

Please use the Construction Incident Line in case you see any problems that you want to draw to their attention…0800 138 5651.

Editor: Geoff Caine