5 June, 2009

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Mapping my local area reminded me: what’s going on with the old BBC Pebble Mill site?

For a little while I’ve been aware of a blog about my postcode area of B29, but it had never dawned on me to offer to contribute. So today I offered my services, and jumped in by plotting B29 onto a Google map. And in so doing I remembered the void that used to be Pebble Mill.

The site of the old BBC studios has been clear for more than four years. The University has plans for a Science and Technology Park which is apparently due in 2015, but the only pages I found on their website with any dates refer to nothing later than 2006. And (at the time of writing) the Birmingham City Council’s search engine is broken, so not very fruitful.

I’ve posted a question to the new Help Me Investigate website (currently in private beta, so for now you need an invitation to join), in case anyone has light they can shed on it.

Knowing me I may have been completely oblivious to frenetic development activity, and that there’s actually an enormous glass cathedral of science now sitting where the BBC used to be. Hopefully though I haven’t missed much, and this blog post is still relevant.

So are we still to expect a glossy university science building bang opposite the Nature Centre (handy for medical experiments), or may we use the waste ground to play on?

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