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Big City Plan Stage 2

A commentable WordPress site for the second report of Birmingham City Council's Big City Plan. Not so easy to navigate, and the real test is how they handle any conversation—but a good step.

Community consultation for the JFK Mosaic on 22nd July – Digbeth is Good

The Birmingham Irish Community Forum are inviting everyone to a Community consultation event on 22nd July 6.30pm – 8.30pm at the Irish Centre to give feedback on potential sites for the old JFK Mosaic to be ‘re-housed’ within the Irish Quarter.

Digbeth Consultation Questionnaire

Digbeth is Good put an offline consultation online: "Atkins are conducting a Digbeth Consultation Questionnaire for Birmingham City Council and Advantage West Midlands, which they would like as many people as possible to respond to. Unfortunately it is not available online, so I’ve created a Google Form so you can complete it online if you like. I’ll forward the summary spreadsheet to Atkins, who are aware of what I’m doing (I spoke to representatives at the Digbeth Corridor Study Stakeholder Consultation Meeting). "

“Birmingham Gateway” have your say.

When you say “Birmingham Gateway” to me I have a vision of looming gates halfway between something from King Kong and the Swords of Qādisīyah, also called the Hands of Victory which stand in Baghdad. The truth, as always, is far less dramatic than the stuff that goes on in my head. Following on neatly from the awesome find by Karen’s Mum at a car boot sale the council are asking for people to have their say on the proposal for the new “gateway” where New Street Station currently sits. The online questionnaire is available 12th – 23rd October 2009 by clicking ‘have your say’ on http://www.newstreetnewstart.co.uk. The exhibition will be available on the station concourse at the following times: Thursday 15th October – 10am-7pm Friday 16th October – 10am-7pm Saturday 17th October – 10am-1.30pm Make sure that you take this chance to let the people who’re running the project hear what you think.

Moseley / King's Heath Rail Consultation

Good round up of the current state of play about the long awaited re-opening of this line, and details of the recent public meeting. It boils down to this: "It is likely that some projects will be cut and if we do not make the case for the Camp Hill line it is likely that DfT may choose it as one to cut.". Who to consult with and how is on the blog post.

You Can Plan Lozells, but not without effort

From the comprehensive Life in Lozells blog I’ve just found out about a housing consultation — with some exciting computery features. First up, there’s a website —vision-lozells.org … Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! … which does very little but point you to the exciting You Can Plan Lozells “computer programme” (sic) – “a bespoke 3D virtual environment which allows you to view the proposals interactively in 3D. This software has a number of special innovation (sic) created for the Vision Lozells project “. Now, I believe far more can be achieved by letting people talk to each other (a la the Big City Talk project) rather that flashy gizmos that people need to learn, but still — Virtual Lozells, that’s going to be exciting, and at least they’re trying something different. But, it’ll be PC only I think, as a mac user I’ll not be able plan Lozells — wait, there’s a mac version (yay!). So I dowload, install, agreed to the bizarre Terms and Conditions (no screenshots, not sharing etc.) watched as I trusted Birmingham City Council to install something on my computer, launched and: Oh. No contact details on the website, nor any readme.txt file with the installer....

Build ‘em up, knock them down

Stef, creative dynamo behind 3Form is one of the people invited to be part of ‘City Team’- which is he says “basically about twenty people who they see as being good ‘ideas people’ to come up with good thinking about how Birmingham should change, grow and improve over the coming ten to twenty years” – as part of the consultation process for the much vaunted ‘Birmingham Masterplan’. The nice thing is tho, that if you pop off and read his blog post about the whole thing, he wants to hear everybody’s thoughts – get off and comment.

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