The Chamberlain News’ estimate that there are about 5,000 Labour members in Birmingham who will have an opportunity to select the party’s candidate to run for turns out to have been a tad optimistic.
Insiders reacted to last week’s blog with mutterings of “if only, if only”.
Birmingham Council House
Birmingham’s Tory housing chief John Lines has taken steps to show his softer side as a political row rumbles on about his suitability to become Lord Mayor in May.
Right-winger Lines has often been accused by Labour of not doing enough to help homeless people, but he hit back by announcing a rescue
Birmingham Airport
A £100 million contract to build Birmingham Airport’s long-awaited runway extension and carry out major improvements to the A45 is expected to be approved within weeks.
Fourteen construction firms that initially expressed an interest in the project have been whittled down to a shortlist of four, the city council cabinet was told.
This is Digbeth High Street of Digbeth as viewed from a platform in Selfridges in Birmingham, England. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The precise location of Birmingham’s Enterprise Zones has become clearer following the publication of detailed maps showing where new businesses will be able to set up without having to obtain planning permission.
City council planners are applying for fast-track (LDOs) to much of Digbeth and the whole of Birmingham Science Park Aston.
The LDOs cut across normal regulations by allowing entrepreneurs, start-up companies and established firms to change the use of buildings without having to go through the time-consuming and costly process of applying for planning approval.
The council says its aim is to create hundreds of jobs by encouraging the growth of financial services, creative, digital media and ICT businesses in Digbeth and at the science park.
Island House
Birmingham’s huge Eastside regeneration scheme has something of a reputation for playing fast and loose with conservation, which is hardly surprising given the number of old industrial buildings that have been flattened to make way for new development.
And the latest change-versus-heritage battle has all the ingredients necessary to end up in a long and costly legal battle for Birmingham City Council.
Members of the Planning Committee are determined to save , an Edwardian former office block and warehouse which has been empty and derelict for several years.
Island House is just about the only building remaining between Millennium Point and Fazeley Street, but developers Quintain say it must come down because
