mydigbeth

Today I was emailed the minutes from the last Digbeth Residents’ Association meeting on 4th August and learnt about mydigbeth, a new residents’ website built by Adam Crossley. The site’s in its preliminary stages so is still quite basic, but will be developed. As ever, Adam is open to suggestions and requests on this.

As well as building websites, Adam’s also on the case to finding out why work hasn’t started on making Bradford Street look less like a rubbish-strewn bus route and more like the tree-lined boulevard property developers promised us, which was apparently meant to commence in January 2008.

I won’t hold my breath. In fact, it looks like Digbeth will be looking more like this for the forseeable future:

This shell of a building on Cheapside will remain just that indefinately because ‘the site has been closed due to lack of money to move forward.’ The credit crunch hits Digbeth, and the view from my bedroom window, hard.

It’s all a bit galling after my recent posts about lovely older buildings being demolished to make way for the new. Is it just me or are we knocking down local history to build new developments there might not actually be any buyers for?

The next Digbeth Residents’ Association meeting is on 1st September in The Paragon Hotel.