planning

The following statement is taken from the minutes of a meeting of the Birmingham City Council Planning Committee held on Thursday, 30 November 2006. To see the minutes in full, please click here.

“The Area Planning Manager (Central) indicated that the scheme represented the best opportunity in many years to achieve the transformation of New Street Station to which the City has aspired in its ambitions to be an International City. It is a scheme which is likely to attract the necessary funding, and is deliverable because of the commitment of the key parties, including the City Council. He noted that there was clearly a need to deal with the details very carefully to ensure the quality of the finished product, and the City is in a position to do that. The scheme, as well as delivering a significantly better station, offered major regeneration benefits to the City, and officers are therefore supporting the proposal with a positive recommendation to Committee.”