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Having resigned from The Labour Party I have been removed as Chair (and member) of Bham City Council Planning Committee. It has been a great honour to serve in this role over the last 2.5 years, and I thank all committee members for their support

Caught up with a client this week who’s been doing some engagement with children all over #Birmingham and found that their common issue was that there’s nowhere in the city centre for them. Is Europe’s most youthful city the least child-friendly? #play CityPark4Brum ROAM

Artists and activists gathered in Rotterdam to protest Afghanistan’s gender apartheid, where women are banned from schools, work, gyms, parks, showing their faces, or even speaking loudly. Afghan women need global solidarity in their fight against the Taliban.

Here's what we've learnt as Birmingham City Council embarks on a review of its parks service: 🌳 Council exploring new ‘investment opportunities’ 🌳 High-ropes course being considered for popular park 🌳 'Major attraction' facing closure bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A deep dive into a 859 year old Birmingham market threatened by managed decline and a lack of political will power from the council. Will it go the way of London’s Smithfield? Birmingham Dispatch. birminghamdispatch.co.uk/p/after-859-ye…

On 23 Jan we #planted more #trees with Millicent, Professor Benjamin Zephaniah's sister, returning vol Ebony, & other #localpeople for The Zephaniah Forest! Thank you to Bham City Council BOSF - @bosfonline.bsky.social 🦋 & Burbury Park Community Forum for coming! FINAL DAY will be 13 Feb 10:30am - see you there! Benjamin Zephaniah Family Legacy Group

People don't know how great Brutalist architecture it looks framed by green. The Pestana in Madeira looks almost exactly like The Ringway in Birmingham. The problem isn't the building style. It is the setting. Surround brutalist buildings with lush grass & trees!

Bham is notably absent from national political discourse but this is otherwise quite ignorant. Off the top of my head Stewart Lee, Kit de Waal, Malkit Singh, Laura Mvula, Jonathan Coe, Lee Child, John Oliver, Liz Berry, Malala Yousafzai are all pretty relevant. jezc

Remember there are those who grimace when they hear the city being spoken ill of but perhaps don't have the time nor the inclination to point a few things out. That we have one of the five major ballet companies of the United Kingdom, for example, and the busiest single theatre

There is no money for a temporary market and I would not like to sit on the committee that ends 900 years of history by approving the loss of the oldest market in continual operation from the same site in the UK.

The Zephaniah Forest has been completed! 65 trees for 65 years.

From the BBC Archive: Will CARS Spell the Death of Birmingham City Centre? (1964) I'm afraid it did. Birmingham planners bet big on cars in the 1960s, reshaping the city around traffic flow—not people. The result? A hollowed-out centre, struggling retail, and urban decline.

The ‘once-in-a-generation’ Smithfield scheme to transform Birmingham city centre has taken an important step forward this week However, a number of concerns were raised - with one councillor warning of a 'mistake lasting into the next century' birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

Join us to celebrate the magic of The Zephaniah Forest and its Poetree Trail by finding out about the #biodiverse #species we've #planted in memory of Professor Benjamin Zephaniah with Benjamin Zephaniah Family Legacy Group for the UrbanTreeFestival 2025! Burbury Park, 1st Farm Street entrance, W3W: motion.weedy.bulb

It was fantastic to meet Friends of Swanshurst Park and carry out a bird survey ahead of our guided walks next month. 32 species were recorded which shows how much of an urban oasis this park, that gave me so much in childhood, is! 5 butterfly species on the wing too! #BrumBiosphere

Pride to go 'back to roots' after new home search bbc.in/4k4ne4Q

Proposed leisure and culture cuts at “once in a generation” Birmingham Smithfield scheme emerge birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…