A change for the greater good?
DEAR Editor, I have recently relocated my business from Solihull into Birmingham city centre.
Much as Solihull has struggled to see itself as part of Greater Birmingham, I wonder how much Birmingham struggles to see itself as part of Greater Birmingham, too?
The Birmingham Post has long been part of the city’s business community. Perhaps it should rebrand to the Greater Birmingham Post to bring this new framework on to our desks every Thursday morning and on to our tablets and phones every day?
You may even increase your sales and marketing revenues beyond the city’s boundary. Peter Fowles, By email farce surrounding the otherwise charming, fountain and pool in front of the Council House to see that the proposed plans are a non-starter.
I cannot see any good reason for a revamp in the first place.
A few nice benches and perhaps some safe play equipment for children seem to be all that is needed. Other than re-siting some of the many Victorian and later, public statues that the council has stored away out of the public gaze....
It will, no doubt, eventually be another shambles for us Brummies to be ashamed of. See the Library of Birmingham’s opening hours – or lack of them!
As I presently understand it, these rather dangerous and frankly strange plans were lambasted somewhat by various councillors at a Planning Committee meeting but then put forward for resubmission.
Please comfort me by saying they weren’t slid through later while no one was watching.
Mary Worrall, by email