Tag: bigcityplan

Big City Plan: consultation or control freakery?

  • February 16, 2009 at 12:01 am

  • Producing a consultation document that the average member of the public can understand is easy, if you really care. Birmingham itself has plenty of top class graphic communicators, journalists, copywriters and sub-editors. The Big City Plan is such a massive undertaking that there are, presumably, the financial resources to make sure the public is consulted properly. It seems that it’s just the will that isn’t there.

Whitby commandeers bus in contempt for public consultation

  • January 26, 2009 at 8:08 pm

  • I sincerely hope this story isn’t true: because if it is, it shows the degree of contempt that Council Leader Mike Whitby has for the people of Birmingham. Two weeks ago a bus of council employees was scheduled to visit the Highgate area of Birmingham. The purpose was to consult local people on the Big [...]

Big City Plan Talk

  • January 23, 2009 at 9:00 am

  • This website aims to present Birmingham Council’s ‘Big City Plan‘ in plain English. It also encourages open comment and discussion. It is unofficial, but was created by a number of enthusiastic people who want to help the council make the right decisions. You can also offer your opinions directly to the Birmingham City Council at [...]

Give your opinion on Birmingham’s Big City Plan

  • January 13, 2009 at 11:28 pm

  • Eventually I shall write a fuller post about this, and about my perception of how it’s being managed and communicated. In the meantime though I just want to help publicise the bus that’s doing the rounds in Birmingham. The council is seeking people’s opinions on its Big City Plan (a massive development plan for Birmingham), [...]