Thanks to Stef Lewandowski, for passing onto me an announcement by Philip Singleton, Project Manager of the Big City Plan. £8 million has been dedicated to the 7 ‘top priority projects’, one of which is to transform Digbeth High Street into a pedestrian-friendly, clutter-free walkway that will ease the journey from the centre to Digbeth. Thank GOD, here’s hoping for no more ‘no-man’s land’ that cuts us off, but a seamless walk without the rugby scrum of bus queues outside Digbeth Cold Storage.
Well thats all well and good but something neeeds to be done about the dreadful hording around the site owned by Naus next to the Irish Centre. They are have permission for 650 apartments and yet another hotel, the design is execrable. Hopefully the downturn will kill it off, but we could be faced with this unsightly mess for many years to come.