Architect and blogger Joe Holyoak has pulled together a conference to consider the future of the city centre 20 years after the Highbury Conference took a whole range of radical decisions for Birmingham. The flyer is here and a booking form (£40 for the day including lunch) for April 14th is here.
Joe and I are fellow trustees at the Birmingham Conservation Trust and many people will know him for his passionate campaigning for the preserving the human scale of Eastside.
Tag: Birmingham UK
Podnosh is based in Birmingham in the UK, so often we write about exciting things that are going on near us.
Brum Bloggers Meet. Monday March 31st – Venue Suggestions please
Stef and Charlotte on the facebook group raised the question are we meeting this month, so rather randomly (with some confidence that Pete Ashton will be there) I’ve plumped for March 31st (by the way others are able to use the Facebook group to create meetings).
Hopefully two or three of the Brum folk who went to SXSW will be able to come – allowing us all to chew over what they saw and what is changing in this city.
We need somewhere to meet, ideally in the city centre. Suggestions asap added in the comments section please.
Update: Location sorted thank you. Rooty Frooty – just opposite reception at the Custard Factory. 17 Gibb Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B9 4AA. (GoogleMaps, MultiMap).
UB40 and Paul McCartney?
Support UB40 at the Fighting Cocks. I stopped listening (no Podcast: Solving a Stinking Mess in Bordesley Green
If you have a stinking brook in your front yard what do you do? Margaret Bannon of the Bordesley Green North Neighbourhood Forum took advantage of the Neighbourhood Performance Reward Grant (NPRG) – a £10,000 pilot programme – to allow residents groups more control over money. This youtube video shows you briefly what happened in Margaret’s neighbourhood and the audio podcast expands on what was done and what was learnt.
The NPRG was created by the Birmingham Community Safety Partnership and is currently being evaluated by the Digbeth Trust.