Digbeth Active Travel and Streets consultation
Overview
We want to improve key streets in Digbeth ahead of future changes in the area. The area will become a key connecting route from HS2 to the Eastside of the city, linking Digbeth’s major public and private developments with HS2 and into the city centre.
These improvements will provide a safe, attractive, and welcoming environment for walking, wheeling* and cycling.
*wheeling refers to people travelling using wheelchairs and other wheeled aids, such as mobility scooters, as well as pushchairs or prams.
Our vision
The Digbeth Active Travel and Streets Programme (AT&SP) will deliver world class safer streets and spaces, with reduced traffic. Access for residents, visitors and workers into Digbeth from HS2 Curzon Street Station, Moor Street Station and other public transport hubs will seamlessly integrate with Birmingham’s existing retail and commercial city core.
Streets and spaces will be healthy, inclusive and inviting. Whilst maintaining the existing creative and industrial character of Digbeth, the scheme will maximise the regeneration potential of Eastside, creating a populous and thriving place to live, work and visit day and night.
The proposals
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The first phase will focus on Bordesley Street, Fazeley Street, Oxford Street and Shaw’s Passage. These streets link current regeneration sites and create a framework for future improvements with a high-quality benchmark for change.
Proposed illustrative view 1 of Bordesley Street looking north-west towards Park Street (View 1 on plan). View image in new browser window.
Proposed illustrative view of Fazeley Street looking south-east towards Pickford Street (view 2 on plan). View image in new browser window.
Typical section through Bordesley Street. View image in new browser window.
Typical section through Fazeley Street. View image in new browser window.
The proposed improvements have been separated into four categories, detailed below:
Traffic management proposals
- Direction of traffic under Park Street bridge to be reversed to allow general traffic to move between Digbeth High Street and Park Street, to Bordesley Street
- Bordesley Street made one way between Park Street and Trent Street, to permit eastbound travel only for motorised vehicles
- Pickford Street made one way between Bordesley Street and Fazeley Street, to permit northbound travel only for motorised vehicles
- Oxford Street between Coventry Street and Bordesley Street will be designed to have limited access, and made one way between Digbeth High Street, through Coventry Street to Bordesley Street. Motorised vehicles will be permitted to travel northbound, with a right turn only onto Bordesley Street from Oxford Street
- Shaw’s Passage to be closed to motorised vehicles (except for access), and parking spaces to be removed
- Parking provision to be rationalised and formalised with dedicated laybys
Public Realm proposals
- Enhanced public realm with high quality paving materials throughout the area, whilst respecting and reinstating heritage paving wherever possible
- Introduction of Hostile Vehicle Mitigation measures in front of BBC Typhoo Wharf
- New and improved street lighting, making the area feel safer for all
- Upgraded street furniture where appropriate
- New street trees to Bordesley Street, Fazeley Street and Oxford Street
- New low-level planting and Sustainable Urban Drainage (SUDs) ‘rain gardens’
- New low-level planting, street trees and native shrub planting to Shaw’s Passage
Cycling proposals
- New two-way segregated cycle lanes to be provided on Park Street, tying into proposals on Moor Street Queensway (delivered as part of the Smithfield development proposals)
- One way segregated contra-flow cycle lane provided (southbound) on Oxford Street, between Coventry Street and Digbeth High Street
- Shared space for cycling on Shaw’s Passage and Oxford Street
- Segregated cycle lanes on Bordesley Street between Park Street and Trent Street
- On-street cycling on Fazeley Street
Walking and wheeling proposals
- Walking and wheeling experience enhanced with improved surfacing and widened pavements wherever possible
- New and improved crossing facilities with tactile paving to prioritise walking and wheeling
- New street plaza adjacent to BBC Typhoo Wharf
- Oxford Street reimagined as a pedestrian priority street park
What happens next
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Events
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Drop in session - Birmingham Friends of the Earth, The Warehouse
From 11 Jun 2024 at 14:00 to 11 Jun 2024 at 16:00An opportunity to view the plans in person, and talk to the project team. No booking needed.
Full address: 54-57 Allison Street, Birmingham, B5 5TH -
Drop in session - Birmingham Friends of the Earth, The Warehouse
From 11 Jun 2024 at 17:00 to 11 Jun 2024 at 19:00An opportunity to view the plans in person, and talk to the project team. No booking needed.
Full address: 54-57 Allison Street, Birmingham, B5 5TH -
Drop in session - Birmingham Friends of the Earth, The Warehouse
From 13 Jun 2024 at 14:00 to 13 Jun 2024 at 16:00An opportunity to view the plans in person, and talk to the project team. No booking needed.
Full address: 54-57 Allison Street, Birmingham, B5 5TH
Areas
- MOSELEY AND KINGS HEATH
Audiences
- All residents
- Councillors/MPs/MEPs
- People with Disabilities
- Cyclists
- Motor Vehicle Drivers
- Pedestrians
- Local Residents
- Businesses
Interests
- cycling
- Health & Wellbeing
- Environment
- Transport (Including Walking)
- Business
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