City Centre & Snow Hill public realm improvements
Overview
Birmingham City Council, alongside Central and Colmore Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), are consulting on plans to enhance public spaces and connectivity in the city centre. The aim is to create an attractive, welcoming, and safer environment to attract more visitors to Birmingham city centre which will assist economic growth.
This consultation includes two schemes: City Centre Public Realm Phase 2 and Snow Hill Public Realm Phase 3A (Newhall Street traffic management). It is envisaged that the schemes will be taken forward together to keep disruption to a minimum and maintain access where possible.
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City Centre Public Realm Phase 2
The City Centre Public Realm scheme aims to enhance the city centre by creating an attractive and safe environment, through improvements such as, new paving, widened footways and enhanced street lighting. These improvements will create a lasting legacy by providing a safe, attractive and welcoming pedestrianised environment for all users to enjoy.
Read the full city centre proposals:
- Upgrading to high-quality paving materials that will be used throughout the scheme area
- Levelling the pedestrian route to ‘kerb free’ between New Street Station and retail and business centre
- Widening the footways wherever possible
- Amending the traffic regulation orders to support pedestrian and cycle-friendly environments, whilst also managing service vehicle access to residents and businesses
- Replacing the temporary Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (HVM) measures with permanent, less intrusive measures
- Improving and enhancing street lighting
- Improving wayfinding (route information)
- Upgrading street furniture
- Extending the pedestrian zone to 11 a.m - 11 p.m. for seven days a week
- Improving loading facilities for local businesses outside the restricted hours to 11.00 a.m – 11.00 p.m. to offset the daytime restrictions
- Changing the current taxi and disabled bays to accommodate the reallocation of space to pedestrians
- Maintaining vehicle access to off-street, private accesses at all times through operation of the HVM bollards
- Reversing the existing one-way vehicle access arrangement (Temple Street > New Street > Lower Bennetts Hill), to Bennetts Hill > New Street > Temple Street
Snow Hill Public Realm 3A improvements
The Snow Hill Public Realm improvements are part of a wider programme aimed at improving connectivity for pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport users in the area around Snow Hill Station. Improvements include the reinstatement of two-way traffic on Newhall Street, as well as the reversal of the direction of flow of one-way traffic on a section of Waterloo Street and Temple Row West.
Read the traffic management proposals
- Upgrading Bennetts Hill between Colmore Row and Waterloo Street, to become two-way
- Changing the traffic signals at the junction of Colmore Row with Bennetts Hill and Newhall Street
- Reversing the one-way flow of traffic on Waterloo Street between Bennetts Hill and Temple Row West from westbound to eastbound (towards the Cathedral)
- Reversing the one-way flow of traffic on Temple Row West between Colmore Row and Waterloo Street from southbound to northbound (towards Colmore Row)
- Relocating loading and disabled parking bays to accommodate the changes on Bennetts Hill and Newhall Street
- Removing a number of general parking and taxi bays from Newhall Street and Waterloo Street
Read the cycle related proposals
- Introducing two-way traffic flow on sections of Bennetts Hill and Newhall Street to enable cyclists to travel northbound (towards Jewellery Quarter) and southbound (towards New Street).
- Reversing the one-way traffic flow direction on Waterloo Street (between Bennetts Hill and Temple Row West) to enable cyclists to travel eastbound (towards St Philip’s Cathedral) with the general traffic flow
- Introducing a contraflow cycle lane on Waterloo Street that will allow cyclists to travel westbound (towards Victoria Square)
- Changing the one-way traffic flow on Temple Row West to enable cyclists to travel northbound (towards Colmore Row) with the general flow of traffic
- Introducing a southbound contraflow cycle lane on Temple Row West (towards New Street) between Colmore Row and Waterloo Street
What happens next
Construction of both the City Centre Public Realm Phase 2 scheme and the Snowhill 3A Traffic Management scheme is expected to begin in 2024.
Disruption will be minimised as much as possible by:
- Adopting a phased approach to the construction works
- Co-ordinating with other local works
- Maintaining access to businesses where at all possible (short-term unavoidable interruptions to access would be undertaken outside normal trading hours)
Further information including a plan of the proposals, a leaflet and details of our drop-in events are available at the bottom of this page.
What happens next
Your responses will be used solely for this consultation and will be kept confidential. Any comments used will be kept anonymous and individuals will not be identified.
Your personal data will be held by Birmingham City Council as the data controller and by Pell Frischmann Consultants Ltd as data processors. Personal data will not be shared with any other organisation. This survey is being conducted in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and if you would like to know more about our Data Protection Policy please visit www.birmingham.gov.uk/privacy.
By filling out the survey you are giving permission for Birmingham City Council to use the data for the purposes outlined above.
Events
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Teams live event
From 16 Mar 2023 at 17:30 to 16 Mar 2023 at 18:30An online presentation on the City Centre and Snow Hill public realm improvements with the opportunity to ask the team any questions you have. Register to attend on eventbrite: https://ccshpublicrealm.eventbrite.co.uk
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Drop in event, 103 Colmore Row
From 22 Mar 2023 at 12:00 to 22 Mar 2023 at 14:00Staff will be available from 12pm - 2pm and 4pm - 6pm to discuss the proposals and answer any questions you may have. No booking needed.
103 Colmore Row B3 3AG -
Drop in event, 103 Colmore Row
From 22 Mar 2023 at 16:00 to 22 Mar 2023 at 18:00Staff will be available from 12pm - 2pm and 4pm - 6pm to discuss the proposals and answer any questions you may have. No booking needed.
103 Colmore Row B3 3AG
Areas
- CITY CENTRE
- LADYWOOD
Audiences
- All residents
- Visitors/tourists
- Cyclists
- Pedestrians
- Local Residents
- Public Sector Bodies
- Businesses
- Faith groups
- Community groups
- Voluntary Organisations
- Staff
- Service user groups
Interests
- Transport (Including Walking)
- City Centre Parking
- Travel
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