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Eastside is Birmingham's biggest physical
regeneration project and is part of Birmingham City Council Development
and Culture Directorate's
Planning and Regeneration Service.
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Eastside is the largest physical regeneration project in Birmingham
(comprising 170 hectares/420 acres). It is transforming,
revitalising and regenerating the neglected areas of Eastside,
Digbeth and Deritend through multi-billion pound investment by a wide
range of organisations and businesses.
Eastside is a key
component in Birmingham's renaissance: encouraging new residential
communities, new investment, new businesses and job creation, as well as
economic and cultural growth, with more than 12,500 new jobs being
created during the lifetime of the initiative.
It is also a major
feature of the
Big City Plan, an exciting twenty-year vision for the future of
Birmingham's greater city centre.
The Eastside project brings
together public and private sector organisations to invest in Eastside's
potential. These agencies are encouraging growth in learning, technology
and knowledge-based facilities, while conserving the area's heritage.
This investment, as demonstrated by a number of developments, is underpinned
by a commitment by the city council and its partners to establishing
Eastside as an example of best practice in
sustainability, an integral part of the philosophy and activities that
determine this quarter's progress.
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Eastside is located to the east of the city centre, in the area between
the Bullring and Lawley Middleway, and from Dartmouth Circus in the
north to Bordesley Circus in the south. It includes the
The Custard Factory, Aston University, a number of Birmingham City
University campuses, Matthew Boulton College, and South Birmingham
College.
Please see the map attached below for further reference.
Please note: the map is reproduced from the Ordnance Survey Mapping with the
permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office © Crown
copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may
lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Birmingham City Council.
Licence No.100021326, 2007.
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Eastside — Birmingham's new learning, technology and heritage quarter —
will provide citizens with learning and employment opportunities.
Eastside City Park and new developments will create links between
surrounding communities and the city centre.
The project will
also extend the city centre and its successful network of public
squares, spaces and streets, developing a dynamic new quarter that is
home to high quality urban design, two conservation areas and a number
of historic sites.
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Local people will have access to the new Eastside City Park, new
developments and businesses, and the creation of new jobs and training
opportunities. Visitors to the city will be able to experience quality
leisure attractions (eg
Millennium Point;
VTP200, the vertical theme park) and enjoy a range of facilities in the
mixed-use developments throughout Eastside.
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Eastside is a focus for major investments and new activities,
complementing existing institutions (eg educational bodies) and new
developments like
Ventureast,
Masshouse Developments Ltd,
Martineau Galleries and
City Park Gate.
In March 2006 Birmingham City Council and
Advantage West Midlands (AWM), the regional development agency,
signed a joint venture to transform the area and create thousands of new
jobs. This alliance is delivering and preparing the land for major
schemes in Eastside, such as Eastside City Park, Ventureast, alongside
the learning and leisure quarter.
The
Curzon Street Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) is intended to assemble and
deliver the land for these schemes. A public inquiry in February 2007
heard from a range of stakeholders and objectors to the CPO, and the
Secretary of State confirmed the order on 30 May 2007. This allows the
city council to complete the land assembly for the area.
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Eastside's regeneration puts
sustainability at the heart of the project and includes the proposed
restoration of canals and adjacent buildings, the construction of new
high-density, sustainable mixed-use developments, and the first major
urban park in the city centre for more than 100 years.
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Eastside City Park will play an important role in the regeneration and
development of Eastside. It will be a major new environmental and
leisure facility for the city, comprising 3.2 hectares (8 acres
). It will create a vital link between the city centre, Eastside and
surrounding communities.
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Digbeth and Deritend played key roles in the development of Birmingham,
and initiatives like
Eastside City Park and improvements to the public spaces and places within
the area will acknowledge and draw on the city's past.
Developments in Eastside will demonstrate a commitment to conserve and
improve the quality of the local environment with well-designed,
attractive buildings, spaces, historic waterways and railway viaducts,
with
sustainability at the heart of the project.
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Arts and culture are important aspects of Eastside, providing means of
expression for residents, artists and users of the city, as
redevelopment work improves the area.
It is proposed that
innovative and creative approaches that respect the past and Eastside's
unique heritage will interact with developments to create a new context
and positive identity for this part of the city.
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Within Eastside there are a range of organisations and bodies providing
events and activities for members of the public and professionals
throughout the year. Follow the above link to find out more information.
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For more information about the Eastside project, please contact the City
Centre Development Team (Eastside) at
16th Floor
Alpha Tower
Suffolk Street Queensway
Birmingham B1 1TR
Tel: 0121 464 0900
Fax: 0121 464 0899
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