Iron Lane

The Iron Lane junction improvements completed in April 2021.

It has enhanced links to employment sites and local retail, reduced congestion and provided improved facilities for cycling and walking.

Key improvements:

• The former gyratory and traffic signals have been replaced with free-flowing roundabouts
• Widened Station Road
• New bridge over the River Cole to provided two lanes in both directions
• Five new pedestrian crossings
• Improved bus stops
• A new segregated footway/cycleway

McPhillips Ltd completed the work on behalf of Birmingham City Council.

Read more on the improvements.

Supporting documents

• Full business case for Iron Lane project
• Side Roads Order
• National Planning Policy Framework
• Birmingham Development Plan
• Birmingham Development Plan Policies Map
• Birmingham Connected White Paper
• Birmingham Cycle Revolution Funding Application 2013
• Project Definition Document (report to Cabinet)
• Stechford Business Case
• Full Business Case (report to Cabinet)
• Consultation Documents
• Local Growth Fund Approval Letter
• Planning Decision Document
• Compulsory Purchase Order statement of case
• Plans for works, showing different phases of the project
• Traffic modelling report
• Junction improvements letter
• Correspondence schedule
• Stechford Retail Park parking survey
• Existing site photographs
• Retail Park landscaping plan
• Extracts from Birmingham Unitary Development Plan
• Birmingham Car Parking Guidelines
• Method statement for works at Stechford Retail Park

Some of the money for this scheme has been provided by the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership’s Local Growth Fund, as part of the Midlands Engine.

Funding has also been provided by Department for Transport, Transport for West Midlands and Cycle City Ambition Grant.