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Overview: Edgbaston |
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Edgbaston is in south-west Birmingham, two miles from the
city centre. It features Georgian villas, Victorian townhouses,
a red-brick university campus and social housing estates. The surrounding areas are
Moseley,
Westside,
Harborne,
Lee Bank,
Balsall Heath,
Highgate,
Selly Oak and
Ladywood. Approximately 58% of the population is white British,
17% is of Asian origin, 8.5% is white British, 8% is black, 3.5% is mixed race and 5% is Chinese
or belongs to some other ethnic group. |
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Bus Routes Serving Edgbaston |
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1,
9,
22,
23,
29,
76,
80,
84,
120,
126,
127,
128,
140,
141 |
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Coach Travel: Edgbaston |
| National Express coach services stop outside
the Marriott Hotel on the Hagley Road and at the
Vale student
village on Edgbaston Park Road. |
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Rail Travel: Edgbaston |
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University Station |
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University Rail Station serves QE Hospital and
the University of Birmingham. The station is on the Cross-City
Line and provides regular services to New Street. Trains for
Cardiff, Hereford and Nottingham also stop at University
Station. |
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Crime and Sudden Death in Edgbaston |
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24.10.12: Police Seize Cannabis Plants At Hemisphere Apartments |
| The police discovered a cannabis farm after
searching an address at the Hemisphere Apartments, Edgbaston
Crescent, on Wednesday 24th October 2012. |
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04.09.12: Police Investigate Gunshots On Bristol Road |
| The police investigated reported gunshots on
Bristol Road, near its junction with Belgrave Middleway, at
around 4:30pm on Tuesday 4th September 2012. |
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17.08.12: Synagogue Windows Smashed On Pershore Road |
| Two ornate windows at the Central Synagogue on
Pershore Road were smashed at around 10pm on Friday 17th August
2012. CCTV footage shows a man in his twenties throwing bricks
at the windows. |
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07.08.12: Car Thief Attacks Pregnant Woman On Melville Road,
Edgbaston |
| A heavily-pregnant 38-year-old woman
suffered a fractured arm after being attacked by a car thief
when parking her Honda Civic on Melville Road, Edgbaston at
around 6pm on Tuesday 7th August 2012. Her unborn child was
unharmed. |
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09.07.12 Police Arrest Touts Outside Edgbaston Cricket Stadium |
| Undercover officers arrested two touts
suspected of selling forged tickets to fans attending a one-day
international at Edgbaston Stadium on Wednesday 4th July 2012. |
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29.06.12: Late Night Mugging on Hagley Road |
| A 35-year-old man was hospitalised with head
injuries after being mugged on the Hagley Road at around 3:45am
on Friday 29th June 2012. |
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18.05.12: Student Sexually Assaulted on Pritchatts Road |
| A 19-year-old student was sexually assaulted
by a stranger who grabbed her from behind on Pritchatts Road at
around midnight on Friday 18th May 2012. |
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11.04.12: Flatmates Robbed At Knifepoint |
| Five youths robbed two men at knifepoint after
breaking into their flat in Edgbaston on Wednesday 11th April
2012. One of the offenders was later jailed for 18 months at
Birmingham Crown Court. The Court of Appeal increased his
sentence to six years in October 2012. |
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20.02.12: Burglars Rob Paralysed Man on Rotton Park Road |
| A 49-year-old paralysed man was robbed by
three burglars armed with knives and guns at his home on Rotton
Park Road on Monday 20th February 2012. Two female carers were
assaulted and tied-up. |
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20.02.12: Three Jailed for Gangland Execution on Melville Road |
| Three people have been jailed for the murder
of a 22-year-old man who was shot dead on Melville Road at
around 10:15pm on Tuesday 21st June 2011. A 23-year-old man who
pulled the trigger must serve at least 28 years, a 32-year-old
woman who lured the victim to his death must serve at least 22
years and a 21-year-old man who burned the killer's clothes must
serve at least 26 years. |
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08.10.11: Two Clubbers Battered on Ryland Street |
| Two 19-year-old men were battered on Ryland
Street after leaving the Oh Velvet bar on Broad Street at around
4am on Saturday 8th October 2011. |
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26.07.11: Two Hospitalised After Shooting and Stabbing on
Bristol Road |
| A 63-year-old man was shot and his 35-year-old
son was stabbed, apparently as the victims of a botched robbery,
at their house on the Bristol Road at around 10pm on Tuesday
26th July 2011. |
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13.04.11: Police Raid 100-Plant Cannabis Farm on Gillot Road |
| The police seized 100 cannabis plants during a
raid at an address on Gillot Road on Wednesday 13th April 2011. |
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05.04.11: Violent Sex Attack at Oakhill Allotment |
| A man dragged a 28-year-old woman from Sandon
Road onto the Oakhill Allotments where he sexually assaulted her
at around 9:30pm on Tuesday 5th April 2011. |
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09.04.11: Man Jailed for Robbing Maxims Casino on Norfolk Road |
| A 34-year-old man was jailed for 15 years at
Birmingham Crown Court for participating in an armed robbery at
Maxims Casino on Norfolk Road at 3am on Wednesday 14th July
2010. |
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26.02.11: Man Jailed for Attempted Explosion on Roman Way |
| A 34 year-old man was jailed for a minimum of
two years at Birmingham Crown Court in February 2011 for
attempting to cause a gas explosion at his flat on Roman Way
after summoning police officers to complain about staff at a
local Comet store. |
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18.11.10: Cannabis Farm on City Road |
| A 20-year-old man who cultivated cannabis at a
house on City Road, was spared a jail sentence at Birmingham
Crown Court because he reported himself to the police and had
acted under pressure from organised criminals. |
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12.08.10: Elderly Man Battered on Statham Drive |
| A 62-year-old man sustained cuts to his face
and legs after he was battered by two assailants on Statham
Drive at around 4:30pm on Thursday 12th August 2010. |
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07.06.10: Doctor Assaulted on Somerset Road |
| A 39-year-old tramp was jailed for 15 months
at Birmingham Crown Court for a random attack on a retired
doctor on Somerset Road. |
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18.05.10: Prowler on University Campus |
| A 35-year-old man from Ottawa Tower, Benmore,
stole credit cards and a phone and covertly filmed female
students getting changed at the Old Gym at the University of
Birmingham. He was caught trying to use the cards to set up
direct debits and pleaded guilty to theft, fraud, voyeurism and
outraging public decency at Birmingham Crown Court. |
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30.04.10: Dollery Drive Man Jailed for Bus Assault |
| A 22-year-old man from Dollery Drive was
jailed for 30 months at Warwick Crown Court for mugging a bus
passenger on Friday 19th February 2010. |
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21.03.10: Student Death at Pershore Road Digs |
| A 19-year-old University of Birmingham
student, who was studying astrophysics, was found dead at his
digs on the Pershore Road on Sunday 21st March 2010. |
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22.07.10: Carjacking on Selwyn Road |
| Four armed men broke into a house on Selwyn
Road at around 10pm on Thursday 22nd July 2010; they stabbed a
30-year-old man and demanded the keys to a Mercedes that was
parked outside. |
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19.04.09: Man Shot Dead on Gillot Road |
| A 20-year-old man was shot dead on Gillot Road
on 19th April 2009. |
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Traffic Accidents in Edgbaston |
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21.10.12: Three Die In Car Crash On Bristol Road |
| Three passengers died after a car crashed into a tree on the Bristol Road,
near its junction with Pebble Mill Road, at around 4:30am on
Sunday 21st October 2012. The driver was treated for minor
injuries. |
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21.08.12: Fatal Bus Accident On Hagley Road |
| A 45-year-old man was pronounced dead at the
scene after being hit by a number nine bus on the Hagley Road at
around 12:15pm on Tuesday 21st August 2012. |
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29.07.12: Car Crash At Edgbaston Golf Club |
| A man in his 80's and a woman in her 60's
sustained multiple injuries after their car crashed into a fence
in the car park of Edgbaston Golf Club at noon on Sunday 29th
July. |
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06.04.12: Biker Crash on Hagley Road |
| A motorcyclist suffered leg injuries after
colliding with a Volvo on the Hagley Road at around 8:40am
on Wednesday 4th April 2012. |
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07.02.12: Man Freed From Wreckage After Lamppost Collision |
| Fire crews freed a man after the car in which
he was travelling hit a lamppost on the Hagley Road at around
9:30pm on Monday 6th February 2012. The injured man, believed to
be in his early twenties, broke both legs. |
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05.10.11: Motorcyclist Dies Following Crash on Gillot Road |
| A 38-year-old motorcyclist died in hospital
shortly after he collided with a car at the junction of Gillot
Road and Icknield Port Road at around 7am on Monday 3rd October
2011. |
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30.09.11: Five Injured in Two Car Crash on Bristol Road |
| Four men and a woman, all in their twenties,
were hospitalised after sustaining minor multiple injuries in a
two-car-collision at the junction of Bristol Road and Priory
Road at around 6pm on Friday 30th September 2011. |
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18.08.11: Pedestrian Dies After Being Hit by Car on Bristol Road |
| A 38-year-old pedestrian died in hospital on
Thursday 18th August 2011 after being hit by a car on the
Bristol Road at around 7:30am on the previous day. |
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01.08.11: Pedestrian Dies After Being Hit by Motorbike on Hagley
Road |
| A pedestrian died in QE Hospital shortly after
being hit by a motorbike on the Hagley Road at around 9:40pm on
Monday 1st August 2011. |
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07.06.11: Car Crashes into Restaurant on Chad Square |
| A female motorist in her fifties crashed into
the front window of Pinocchio's Italian restaurant on Chad
Square at around noon on Tuesday 7th June 2011; nobody was
injured. |
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21.11.10: Crash At Junction of Priory Road/Bristol Road |
| A car and motorcycle collided at the junction
of Priory Road and Bristol Road at around 5pm on Sunday 21st
November 2010. The motorcyclist sustained multiple injuries. |
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21.09.10: Car Collides With Lorry on Pershore Road |
| A car collided with a lorry on Pershore Road
at around midday on Monday 20th September 2010. A man was cut
from the wreckage. |
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30.05.10: Car Hits Wall On Chad Road |
| Two men sustained suspected spinal injuries
when a car hit a wall on Chad Road at around 1pm on Sunday 30th
May 2010. |
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16.05.11: Motorist Cut From Wreckage on Edgbaston Park Road |
| A motorist was cut from wreckage following a
two-vehicle crash on Edgbaston Park Road at around 3:30pm on
Monday 16th May 2011. |
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18.04.11: Woman Cut From Crash Wreckage on Rotton Park Road |
| A female motorist was cut from wreckage
following a two car collision on Rotton Park Road at around 8am
on Monday 18th April 2011. |
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22.03.10: Pedestrian Hit On Harborne Road |
| A pedestrian suffered two broken legs on the
Harborne Road at around 1pm on Monday 22nd March 2010 after he
was hit by a motorist who mounted the pavement to avoid a
collision with another car. |
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08.03.11: Car Rolls Over and Hits Tree on Somerset Road |
| Two men were hospitalised after a car rolled
over and hit a tree on Somerset Road at around 6pm on Tuesday
8th March 2011. |
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26.12.09: Three Car Collision At Junction of Priory Road and
Bristol Road |
| Three cars collided at the junction of Priory
Road and Bristol Road at around 11am on 26th December 2009. One
adult and two children were hospitalised. |
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01.12.09: Two Car Collision At Junction of Gillot Road and
Hagley Road |
| Two cars collided at the junction of Hagley
Road and Gillot Road at noon on 1st December 2009. Two people
were hospitalised with head injuries. |
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27.11.09: Bus and Car Collide At Junction of Gillott Road &
Portland Road |
| A bus collided with a car at the junction of
Gillott Road and Portland Road on 27th November 2009. A female
passenger broke her hip. |
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Fire in Edgbaston |
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17.08.12: Chemical Leak At Bellevue Medical Centre |
| Fie crews contained an ammonia spill at the
Bellevue Medical Centre on the Benmore Estate on Friday 17th
August 2012. Staff and patients were evacuated but nobody was
injured. |
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29.05.11: Fire Destroys Knowle Lodge Hotel |
| The roof of the Knowle Lodge Hotel on Hagley
Road collapsed during a fire that started at around 5:30pm on
Sunday 29th May 2011; 200 people were evacuated and 1 man was
treated for smoke inhalation; the building is beyond repair and
will have to be demolished. |
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14.03.11: Kitchen Fire on Twyning Road |
| Firefighters attended a kitchen blaze on
Twyning Road at around 1:30am on Monday 14th March 2011. |
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09.02.11: Man Severely Burned On Poplar Avenue |
| A man sustained serious burns to his hands and
face whilst attempting to rescue a dog from a blaze at a ground
floor flat on Poplar Avenue at around 11:30am on Wednesday 9th
February 2011. |
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Shopping in Edgbaston |
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Five Ways Shopping Centre |
| Five Ways Shopping Centre contains a shopping
mall, pedestrian plaza and multi-storey car park. The mall has
been vacated pending redevelopment but external units on
Islington Row and Broad Street, including a post office and
Boots store, are occupied. |
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Morrison's @ Edgbaston Shopping Centre |
| Edgbaston Shopping Centre on the Harborne
Road has been redeveloped as a
Morrison's superstore, five
retail units and a car park. 08.11.12: Two customers were
rushed to hospital suffering from nausea after drinking coffee
from a vending machine. |
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Hagley Road |
| There are shopping parades on the Hagley Road.
These mainly contain independent, local and secondary chains.
Key national retailers include the
Carphone Warehouse and
Tesco
Express. |
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Aldi @ Edgbaston Road |
| There is an
Aldi supermarket on Edgbaston
Road, opposite Warwickshire Cricket Ground. |
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University of Birmingham |
| There are branches of
Rymans and
Waterstones
off University Square, a farm shop at University Centre, a Spar
convenience store at the Guild of Students and a Costcutter
supermarket at the Vale student village. |
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Pubs and Clubs in Edgbaston |
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Tower Ballroom |
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The Tower Ballroom is a refurbished 1920's
nightclub on Reservoir Road. |
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Spearmint Rhino |
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Spearmint Rhino is a lap dancing club on the Hagley Road. |
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Beauforts |
| Beauforts is a traditional English pub at the
Plough and Harrow Hotel on the Hagley Road. |
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Garden House |
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The Garden House is a Chef and Brewer pub on
the Hagley Road. |
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Grove Hotel |
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Grove Hotel on the Hagley Road contains a
bar with live sport and pool tables. |
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Guild of Students |
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Guild of Students on Edgbaston Park Road
contains Joes Bar and the Underground nightclub. |
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Vale Student Village |
| The HUB at the Vale Student Village on
Edgbaston Park Road contains the Bar One nightclub and Lower Rio
bottle bar and nightclub. |
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Restaurants in Edgbaston |
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Ask |
| Ask is an Italian casual diner on the Hagley
Road. |
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Banu |
| Banu is an Indian restaurant on Hagley Road. |
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Beefeater |
| The Beefeater serves char-grilled steak, pasta
and salad at the Duck on the Hagley Road. |
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Dormy Hotel |
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Dormy Hotel on the Hagley Road contains a carvery restaurant. |
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Dynasty |
| Dynasty (aka New Jonny Wongs) is a
Chinese restaurant on the Hagley Road. |
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Edgbaston Tandoori |
The
Edgbaston Tandoori is on the Hagley Road.
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Headingly |
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Headingly is a multi-cuisine international
restaurant at the Norfolk Hotel on the Hagley Road. |
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Lychee Garden |
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Lychee Garden is a Cantonese restaurant on the
Hagley Road. |
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McDonalds |
| There is a
McDonalds drivethru on the Bristol
Road. |
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Pascal's |
| Pascals is a fine-dining French restaurant on
Montague Road |
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Pinocchio's |
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Pinocchio's on Chad Square specialises in
authentic and innovative Italian cuisine. |
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Portland |
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Portland Hotel serves English and
continental cuisine. |
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Regards |
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Regards is an authentic Indian restaurant on
Chad Square. |
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Regency |
| The Regency Restaurant at the
Eaton Hotel on
Hagley Road serves traditional British dishes including
free-range beef, salt marsh lamb and Suffolk pork. |
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Rose Murree |
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Rose Murree is an Indian restaurant on the
Hagley Road. |
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Shiraz |
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Shiraz is an Indian restaurant on the Hagley
Road. |
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Simpsons |
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Simpsons on Highfield Road serves modern
French cuisine. It is a Michelin star restaurant with its own
cookery school and upstairs bedrooms. |
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Subway |
| There is a Subway fast food restaurant on
Calthorpe Road, Five Ways. |
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TGI Fridays |
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TGI Fridays is an American-style diner on the
Hagley Road. |
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West 12 |
| West 12 is a bar and restaurant at the
Marriott Hotel on the Hagley Road. |
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University of Birmingham |
| The Edgbaston campus contains the following
restaurants and cafes: (1) Cafe Aroma at Staff House (2)
Avanti at University House (3) The Business School Cafe (4)
Raising the Bar at the Munrow Sports Centre (5) The Bratby Bar
at Staff House (6) The Gisbert Kapp and Health Services Coffee
Shop at Pritchatts Road; and
(7) The Food Court at University Centre (8) The Cyber
Go Takeaway at the Arts Building (9) The Hub @ Vale Village (10)
Starbucks at Muirhead Tower (11) Ginsters Bakery at University
Centre (12) The Cafe at Mechanical Engineering; and
(13) The Coffee Lounge at the Poynting Physics Building (14)
Subway at the Guild of Students (15) The Food Court at the
Medical School (16) The Cafe at the Education Building (17) The Go2 Cafe
at the Computer Science Learning Centre (18) The Undercroft Cafe
at the Biosciences Building (19) ILounge at the Main Library
(20) The Astor Restaurant at Staff House (21) The Noble Room
Restaurant at Staff House |
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Casinos in Edgbaston |
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Genting Casino |
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Genting Casino (Maxims) on Norfolk Road
offers American Roulette, Blackjack, Three Card Poker,
Electronic Roulette and Baccarat. The facilities include a
restaurant and late bar. There was an armed robbery at this
casino on Wednesday 14th July 2010. |
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Rainbow Casino |
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Rainbow Casino on Portland Road offers
American Roulette, Blackjack, Blackjack Switch, Three Card
Poker, Two Way Poker, Punto Banco, Slots and Electronic
Roulette. The facilities include a bar and restaurant. |
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Hotels in Edgbaston |
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Apollo |
| The Apollo is a 126-room
hotel on the Hagley Road with a bistro bar, restaurant, parking and a 21-room
conference centre whose largest suite, the Mountbatten, can seat
140. |
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Augustus |
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Augustus Hotel is on Gillott Road. The
facilities include a bar and free parking. |
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Cavalier House |
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Cavalier House Hotel on the Hagley Road is
a mid-Victorian mansion set in landscaped gardens centred on a
private courtyard. The facilities include a bar, restaurant,
business centre, 35-capacity function room and free parking. |
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Dormy Hotel |
| The Dormy is a 46-room hotel
on the Hagley Road with a bar, beer garden, carvery and free parking. |
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Eaton Hotel |
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Eaton Hotel is a 52-room
Regency-style mansion on the Hagley Road with a bar, restaurant and two private
dining suites. It is licensed for civil ceremonies and can hold
conferences for up to 150 delegates. Parking is free. |
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Edgbaston Palace Hotel |
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Edgbaston Palace Hotel is a Victorian mansion set in landscaped gardens
on the Hagley Road. The facilities
include a restaurant and free car park. |
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Fountain Court Hotel |
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Fountain Court is a small hotel with free
parking on the Hagley Road. |
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Grove Hotel |
| The Grove is a 45-room
hotel on the Hagley Road with a bar, sky sports, a billiards room, restaurant and
car park. |
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Marriott Hotel |
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The Marriott is a 104-room hotel on the Hagley
Road. The facilities include a bar, restaurant, business centre,
six meeting rooms, a cardiovascular gym, whirlpool and heated
indoor swimming pool. Chargeable on-site parking is available. |
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Menzies Strathallan |
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Menzies Strathallan is a
135-room hotel on the Hagley Road with a bar, brasserie and six function suites,
the largest of which can hold 170 theatre-style. It is licensed
for civil ceremonies and has a chargeable car park. |
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Norfolk Hotel |
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Norfolk is a 185-room hotel
on the Hagley Road with a cafe, restaurant and six conference rooms. It is licensed
for civil ceremonies. |
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Portland Hotel |
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The Portland is a 63-room hotel
on the Hagley Road with a bar and restaurant that serves English and continental
cuisine. Parking is available. |
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Plough and Harrow Hotel |
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Plough and Harrow Hotel on Hagley Road is
a 44-room converted Jacobean coaching inn with a big garden, a
restaurant, lounge, pub, Sky sports and seven conference rooms,
the largest of which can hold 100 theatre-style. It is licensed
for civil ceremonies and has a free car park. |
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Premier Inn |
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Premier Inn is a 67-room hotel, next to
the Duck pub on the Hagley Road. The facilities include a
Beefeater restaurant and free car park. |
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Quality Hotel |
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The Quality is a 165-room hotel
on the Hagley Road with a bar, restaurant, seven conference rooms for up to 100
delegates and free parking. It is licensed for civil ceremonies. |
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Westbourne Lodge |
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Westbourne Lodge on Fountain Road is an
18-room hotel with a bar and free parking. |
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Woodlands Hotel |
| The
Woodlands Hotel on the Hagley Road
contains a bar, restaurant and car park. |
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Serviced Apartments In Edgbaston |
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Saco @ Hagley Road |
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Saco have converted two Victorian villas on
the Hagley Road into one-and-two-bedroom short-stay serviced
apartments. |
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Conference Centres in Edgbaston |
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University Conference Park |
| The
University Conference Park is on Edgbaston
Park Road, roughly 200 metres from University East Gate. It
contains 4 buildings set in landscaped grounds. The facilities
include 106 bedrooms, 11 conference rooms, 14 syndicate rooms, 2
bars, 2 restaurants and a free car park. |
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Winterbourne House |
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Winterbourne House is on Edgbaston Park Road,
roughly 200 metres from University East Gate. It is an Edwardian
arts and crafts mansion with 8 meeting rooms set in a botanical
garden. The grounds also contain the purpose-built Nicholson
Building which has a refectory and 5 five meeting rooms, the
largest of which can hold 100 delegates. |
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Staff House |
| Staff House on University Square contains
conference facilities for up to 400 delegates. |
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Museums and Galleries in Edgbaston |
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Barber Institute |
| The
Barber Institute (1932) at University East
Gate contains an impressive art collection spanning from the
13th to 20th centuries.
It includes old masters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck,
Botticelli, Holbein and Veronese and French impressionists
including Manet, Monet, Degas, Van Gogh and Gauguin. The
English School is represented by Turner, Gainsborough and
Reynolds and the 20th century collection contains oil paintings
and drawings by Picasso, Matisse, Magritte and Schiele.
The Institute also contains a 360-seat concert hall,
specialist art and music libraries and collections of sculpture,
coins, miniature portraits and objets d'art. Admission is free. |
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Lapworth Geology Museum |
| The
Lapworth Geology Museum is in the Aston
Webb building at the University of Birmingham. It contains
fossil and mineral collections. Admission is free. 15.11.12:
This museum has unveiled plans for a �700,000 refurbishment to
include better access, more space for children and a more
interactive experience. |
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Art Centres in Edgbaston |
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Midland Arts Centre |
| The Midland Arts Centre in Cannon Hill Park
contains four performance spaces, an art gallery, cinema and
rehearsal studios. |
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Public Art in Edgbaston |
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The Sturge Memorial |
| The Sturge Memorial (1862) on the Hagley Road
is dedicated to Joseph Sturge (1793-1859), a Quaker corn
merchant who created "Free Villages" in the Caribbean and who
campaigned for the abolition of slavery and the enfranchisement
of the British working class.
The memorial portrays him in marble on a stone plinth flanked
by an allegory of Peace holding a dove, olive branch and lamb,
and an allegory of Charity, comforting two Afro-Caribbean
children. |
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Five Ways Clocktower |
| The Five Ways Clocktower on Calthorpe Road is
an iron box clock with Gothic decoration mounted on a
seven-metre column. |
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George I Equestrian |
| The George I equestrian statue (1717) stands
outside the Barber Institute on Edgbaston Park Road. It
originally stood on Essex Bridge in Dublin but was purchased by
the Barber Institute after Ireland became a republic. |
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Mermaid |
| The Mermaid (1960) in the courtyard of the
Guild of Students is a bronze fountain figure cast by William
Bloye. |
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Faraday Sculpture |
| The Faraday Monument on Vincent Drive is a
bronze sculpture that portrays Michael Faraday with force lines
representing light, sound, magnetism and electricity. The base
is inscribed with a quotation from T.S.Eliot's "Dry Savages"
stating that the purpose of a university education is "to
travel, listen, think and change". |
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Ancestor 1 |
| Ancestor 1 (1970) on University Square is a
bronze sculpture by Barbara Hepworth that forms part of her
"Family of Man": a series that explores human relationships
through texture, form and shape. |
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Churches in Edgbaston |
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St Bartholomew's C of E |
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St Bartholomew's on Church Road originated as
a mediaeval chapel attached to Edgbaston Hall. It was rebuilt in
the Perpendicular Style in the 19th century and features a
chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, Lady Chapel and west tower. |
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SS Mary & Ambrose C of E |
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SS Mary and Ambrose (1898) is an Anglican
church in the Gothic style on Raglan Road |
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St George's C of E |
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St George's (1838) is a sandstone church in
the Early English Style on a roundabout at the junction of
Westbourne Road, Calthorpe Road and Highfield Road. The interior
contains a high ceiling with Early English decoration, stained
glass, choir stalls, a parclose screen (1885), organ case (1890)
and Lady Chapel Screen (1906). |
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Saint Augustine's Cof E |
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Saint Augustine's (1868) is a sandstone church
with an apsidal chancel, nave, aisles and a 55-metre tower and
spire. It stands on a traffic island that dominates the approach
from the Hagley Road. The interior features a painted ceiling,
carvings, stained-glass and reredos. A man was shot dead
outside this church on 21/06/11. |
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St Germain's C of E |
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St Germain's (1915)
is an Anglican church in the Byzantine Style on City Road. |
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Birmingham Oratory RC |
| The
Birmingham Oratory on the Hagley Road
contains the Church of the Immaculate Conception (1909) in the
baroque style with a copper dome, shallow transepts and a long
nave flanked by a Corinthian colonnade. The interior features
coloured marbles, polychrome mosaics, the shrine of St Philip Neri and a memorial to Cardinal Newman. |
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St Francis Hall |
| St Francis Hall on Edgbaston Park Road
contains two multi-faith spaces. |
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Church of Cherubim and Seraphim |
| The
Church of Cherubim and Seraphim is on Gillott Road. |
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Religious Orders In Edgbaston |
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Missionaries of Charity |
| The Missionaries of Charity are a religious
order of nuns on Spring Road. |
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Annie Bright Weston Home and Convent |
| The Annie Bright Weston Home and Convent is on
Norfolk Road. |
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Congregation of the Oratory |
| The Oratorians are a Roman Catholic Order of
priests and lay brothers based at the Birmingham Oratory on
Hagley Road. |
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St Paul's Convent |
| St Paul's Convent is a community of Sisters of
Charity of St Paul on Vernon Road. |
|
Methodist Diaconal Order |
| The
Methodist Diaconal Order is an Order of Ministry and a
Religious Order within the Methodist church. It is based
on St James Road in Edgbaston. The facilities include a
25-capacity conference centre, nine bedrooms, a dining room and
lounge. |
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Quakers In Edgbaston |
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Edgbaston Meeting House |
| The
Edgbaston Meeting House is on St James
Road. |
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Synagogues In Edgbaston |
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Birmingham Central Synagogue |
| The
Birmingham Central Synagogue is on Pershore Road.
Two ornate windows were smashed at this synagogue on Friday 17th August
2012. |
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Hindu Temple in Edgbaston |
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ISKCON Birmingham |
| The
International Society For Krishna
Consciousness (ISKON) is on Stanmore Road. |
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Schools and Colleges in Edgbaston |
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University of Birmingham |
| The
University of Birmingham (est. 1900) is
the 11th largest university in the UK and is attended by around
16,500 undergraduates and 8,000 postgraduates. It occupies a
vast campus in Edgbaston that includes the Vale student village,
the Barber Institute, the Guild of Students, St Francis Hall,
the Aston Webb Building and the 100-metre Chamberlain
Clocktower. The core buildings are arranged in a crescent on a
ridge overlooking Selly Oak.
The University of Birmingham has fallen 10 places from 148th
to 158th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings
2012/13. The
University of Birmingham has unveiled plans for a new library on
its Edgbaston campus. The project is costed at �37 million. Work
will begin in spring 2014. According to the QS World University Rankings, this
university is the 77th best in the world (September 2012).
21.11.12: Students staged a protest at the Aston Webb building
in protest at the proposed redundancy of Dr Jos� Nafaf�, a
lecturer from the department of political science and
international studies.
14.11.12: Power cut at 12:40pm causes large parts of the campus
to close.
12.11.12: An anonymous facebook user has apparently admitted to
a serious sexual assault while studying at this university on a
page called Birmingham Uni Confessions.
25.10.12: Vice-Chancellor Professor David Eastwood has lead a
delegation to Birmingham's twin city, Chicago.
17.10.12: The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity has been
axed with the loss of 8 jobs. It will be replaced by a Centre
for Archaeology within a new classics and ancient history
department.
09.10.12: President of the Christian Union, a 21-year-old
economics student, sparked outrage by blacking his face and
wearing a Rastafarian hat for a fancy dress party. |
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BCU: City South Campus |
| The
City South Campus of Birmingham City
University is on Westbourne Road. It contains the Faculty of
Health, three halls of residence and postgraduate flats. |
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BCU: Faculty of Health |
| The Faculty of Health on Westbourne Road
trains nurses, midwives, social workers, radiographers and
military medics. The facilities include a specialist library,
mock wards, birthing rooms, operating theatres, a plaster room
and a radiotherapy skills centre. |
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Queens College |
| Queens College on Somerset Road is an
ecumenical theological college training priests for the Church
of England, the United Reform Church and the Methodist Church. |
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King Edwards School |
|
King Edwards School is
an independent boys school on Edgbaston Park Road attended by around 850 pupils aged
11-18. |
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King Edward VI High School for Girls |
|
King Edward VI High School for Girls is an independent secondary school
on Edgbaston Park Road attended
by around 550 girls aged 10-18. |
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Edgbaston High School for Girls |
|
Edgbaston High School for Girls is an independent school on
Westbourne Road attended by around 1,000 pupils
aged 2-19. |
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Priory School |
|
Priory School is a mixed
independent school on Sir Harry's Road attended by around 290 pupils aged 1-18. Boys
do not generally attend beyond the age of 14. |
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St Paul's School for Girls |
|
St Paul's on Vernon Road is a
Roman Catholic voluntary-aided comprehensive girls school that
specialises in maths and computing. It is attended by around
1,000 pupils aged 11-16. |
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Elmhurst School for Dance |
| The
Elmhurst School for Dance on Bristol
Road is a mixed independent secondary school associated with the
Birmingham Royal Ballet. It attended by around 200 pupils aged
11-19. |
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Mander Portman Woodward |
| The
Mander Portman Woodward College on
Greenfield Crescent is a mixed independent secondary school
attended by around 115 pupils aged 14-19. |
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St Georges School |
|
St Georges School is a mixed
independent school on Calthorpe Road attended by around 350 pupils aged 3-18. |
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Blue Coat Prep School |
| The
Blue Coat School is a
mixed independent prep school on Somerset Road attended by
around 550 pupils
aged 3-14. |
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Hallfield School |
|
Hallfield School is a mixed
independent prep school on Church Road attended by around 450 pupils aged 3-11. |
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West House School |
|
West House School is an
independent boys prep school on St James Road attended by around 215 pupils aged
3-13. |
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Norfolk House School |
|
Norfolk House is a mixed independent prep school on Norfolk
Road attended by around 150 pupils
aged 2-11. |
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St Philips RC Sixth Form College |
| St Philips RC Sixth Form College is at the
Birmingham Oratory on the Hagley Road. |
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George Dixon International School and Sixth Form Centre |
|
George Dixon International School and Sixth
Form Centre is a mixed foundation comprehensive
on City Road attended by around 1,100 pupils aged 11-18. |
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George Dixon Infant & Junior School |
|
George Dixon Infant & Junior School is a mixed
community primary on City Road. |
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City Road Primary School |
|
City Road is a mixed community primary
attended by around 450 pupils aged 4-11. |
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Chad Vale School |
|
Chad Vallley School
is a mixed community primary on Nursery Road attended by around 210 children aged
4-11. |
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Student Halls in Edgbaston |
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Vale Student Village: University of Birmingham |
| The Vale Student Village is set in 40 acres of
landscaped parkland off Edgbaston Park Road. It contains the Hub
recreational centre and 7 halls of residence providing
accommodation for around 2,700 students. |
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Pritchatts Park: University of Birmingham |
| Pritchatts Park Student Village on Pritchatts
Road contains a social centre, two converted houses and four
halls of residence A 19-year-old student was sexually assaulted
on Pritchatts Road on 18th May 2012. |
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City South Halls: Birmingham City University |
| The City South Campus of Birmingham City
University on Westbourne Road contains three self-catering halls
with single-room accommodation for around 295 students. There is
also a block of flats for postgraduate students. The campus has
its own bar, cafe, shop, laundry, security office, common room
and
accommodation office. |
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Private Student Halls |
| There are several privately-run student halls,
including the
Beeches on Elvetham Road, Hunter Court on Pershore Road, Victoria Hall on Grange Road, Mansion Brook on the Bristol
Road and the Golden Cross on Metchley Lane. |
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Health Services in Edgbaston |
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QE Hospital |
| The recently-built
QE Hospital on Vincent
Drive contains 1,213-beds, an accident and emergency department,
a cancer and renal transplant centre and the Royal Centre for
Defence Medicine. It is the principal teaching hospital for the
University of Birmingham Medical School.
09.12.12: The President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari and his
daughter Asifa Bhutto have visited Malala Yousufzai at QE Hospital
23.11.12: A miracle baby, who was born three months premature
weighing only 1b 11oz at QE Hospital in November 1982, has
celebrated her 30th birthday.
06.11.12: A 22-year-old student, who was shot in the face in
Pakistan, has had a bullet removed through his nose at this
hospital.
15.10.12: Malala Yousufzai, a 15-year-old campaigner for
education for girls, who was shot in the head by the
Taliban as she made her way home from school in Swat, north-west
Pakistan, has arrived at QE for prolonged care. Well-wishers,
claiming to be members of her family, have been turned away by
security staff. Mian Iftikhar, Information Minister of the
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, has visited the hospital. Her
father, mother and two brothers flew to the UK to be at her side
on 25/10/12. Her father described her treatment as a miracle.
Foreign Secretary, William Hague, visited the patient and her
father on 30/10/12.
20.09.12: The Burns Unit at this hospital has created a "cool
and soothing" art gallery to compensate for a lack of natural
daylight |
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Birmingham Women's Hospital |
|
Birmingham Women's Hospital on Metchley Park
Road provides in-and-outpatient services to women and babies.
22.11.12: A consultant neonatologist, Dr Shree Vishna Rasiah,
believes that not enough parents are aware that their children
might be at risk of bronchiolitis: an infection that fills the
airways with mucus, making it difficult for babies to breathe. |
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Edgbaston Hospital |
|
Edgbaston Hospital on Somerset Road is a
45-bed private hospital managed by BMI Healthcare. The
facilities include three operating theatres and minor surgical
and endoscopy suites. |
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BMI Priory |
| The
BMI Priory is a 111-bed
private hospital on Priory Road with six operating theatres and a six-bed intensive care unit. |
|
Woodbourne Priory |
| The
Woodbourne Priory
on Woodbourne Road is a
private hospital that specialises in the treatment of acute
psychiatric conditions. |
|
Calthorpe Clinic |
| The
Calthorpe Clinic is a
private clinic on Arthur Road providing sterilisation, abortion and vasectomy
services. |
|
Barberry |
| The Barberry on Vincent Drive is a 34-bed
psychiatric unit for female patients with pregnancy-related
issues and/or eating disorders. |
|
Oleaster |
| The Oleaster is a 64-bed psychiatric unit on
Mindelsohn Crescent. |
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Howard Court |
|
Howard Court is a 14-bed
psychiatric rehabilitation unit on Montague Road. |
|
GP Surgeries/Health Centres |
| The
City Road Medical Centre and the
City
Health Centre are on City Road in the Rotton Park area of
Edgbaston. The
Bellevue Medical Centre serves the Benmore estate. There
was an ammonia spill at the Bellevue Medical Centre on 17/08/12. |
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Police in Edgbaston |
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Tally Ho |
|
Tally Ho is a police college on the Pershore
Road. The facilities include a conference and banqueting centre,
a sports and social club, a football pitch, rugby pitch, cricket
pitch, two tennis courts, two bowling greens and a gymnasium. A
bronze statue of Robert Peel stands by the entrance. |
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Green Spaces In Edgbaston |
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Cannon Hill Park |
|
Cannon Hill Park is a linear green space
containing the canalised River Rea which spills over into two
lakes and several smaller pools.
The east bank contains bowling greens, putting greens, tennis
courts, the Sons of Rest Social Club, a Georgian stucco mansion
known as Cannon Hill House and a reassembled Tudor inn, the
Golden Lion, that once stood in Digbeth.
The west bank contains the the Midland Arts Centre, the
Birmingham Nature Centre, two playgrounds, a bowling pavilion,
boathouse, toilets and car park.
The Park Ranger Service is headquartered at the information
centre on Russell Road where there is a small car park. The main
car park is on Edgbaston Road, opposite Edgbaston Cricket
Ground. 17.11.12: 10K run in Canon Hill Park, every Saturday
at 9pm |
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Birmingham Botanical Gardens |
| The
Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Westbourne
Road were designed by John Loudon in 1830. The 15-acre gardens
contain a pavilion, three banqueting suites, an art gallery,
terrace, bowl-shaped lawn, glasshouses and formal gardens. |
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Martineau Gardens |
| The Martineau Gardens on Priory Road contain
2.5 acres of formal beds, glasshouses, vegetable plots,
wildflower meadows, woodlands, orchards and play areas. |
|
Winterbourne Botanic Garden |
| The
Winterbourne Botanic Garden on Edgbaston
Park Road contains a south-facing terrace, lawns, geographic
beds, an arboretum, rock garden, stream lawn and a Japanese
bridge leading to Edgbaston Pool. |
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Sport in Edgbaston |
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Edgbaston Cricket Ground |
|
Edgbaston Cricket Ground on Edgbaston Road is
an international test venue and the home stadium of Warwickshire
County Cricket Club. It has recently been refurbished with a new
stand, shops, offices, apartments and a 700-capacity banqueting
and conference centre. It can hold 25,000 spectators.
01.11.12: A new residential, office, hotel and leisure
development is being built behind the stadium, off the Pershore
Road. Compulsory purchase and demolition orders have been
obtained in respect of twelve pre-existing family homes.
23.10.12: Sports Summit plans gold medal success for Birmingham
at Rio Olympics in 2016. Delegates lamented the lack of a
Brummie Olympic champion at London 2012.
04.07.12: Touts were arrested for selling forged tickets
outside this stadium. |
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Indoor Cricket Centre @ Edgbaston Cricket Ground |
| The Indoor Cricket Centre at Edgbaston Cricket
Ground contains a bar, offices, cricket shop, changing rooms,
seminar room and a main hall that measures 41 metres by 31
metres and can hold 8 retractable net lanes or two 6-a-side
pitches. |
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Warwickshire Country Cricket Club |
| Warwickshire County Cricket Club is a
professional cricket club based at Edgbaston Cricket Ground. It
was established in Leamington Spa in 1882 and moved to Edgbaston in
1886. The club competes in the top tier of the Country
Championship. |
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Edgbaston Golf Club |
|
Edgbaston Golf Club on Church Road features a
tight 18-hole course flanked by woods with a standard
scratch score of 69 and a yardage of 5866. The neo-classical
Georgian clubhouse, formerly Edgbaston Hall, contains a bar,
restaurant and three function rooms.
Two people sustained serious injuries after their car crashed
into a fence at this golf club (21/08/12) |
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Edgbaston Priory Club |
|
Edgbaston Priory is a private racquet and
leisure club on a 12-acre site on Sir Harry's Road. The
facilities include 29 tennis courts, 10 squash courts, a fitness
centre, indoor and outdoor pools and a bar and restaurant. The
club stages a WTA ranking tournament previously won by Martina
Navratilova, Maria Sharapova and Billie Jean King. 09.11.12:
The Assistant Deputy Coroner has ruled that a 53-year-old man
with heart problems died from natural causes while playing
tennis at this club. |
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Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Club |
|
Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Club (the
Archery) is a private members club on Westbourne Road. It was
formed in 1860 and claims to be the world's oldest tennis club.
The facilities include six grass courts, four shale courts and
two floodlit artificial courts. |
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Edgbaston Croquet Club |
|
Edgbaston Croquet Club (est. 1915) is a
private members club on Richmond Hill Road. The facilities a
clubhouse and 3 croquet lawns. |
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Munrow Sports Centre |
| The
Munrow Sports Centre at the University of
Birmingham contains a gymnastics hall, dance studio, martial
arts room, seven squash courts, three multi-purpose sports
halls, a fitness suite, floodlit athletics track and a 25-metre
swimming pool. Membership is open to staff, students and the
general public. |
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Old Gym |
| The Old Gym is a sports hall at the University
of Birmingham.
A man admitted covertly filming female students getting
changed at this gym in May 2010. |
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Sports Pitches @ University of Birmingham |
| There is a floodlit rugby pitch at the
Bournbrook Playing Fields, next to the Aston Webb Building, and
football and rugby pitches at the Metchley Lane Playing Fields,
near QE Hospital. |
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Tall Buildings in Edgbaston |
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Auchinleck House |
|
Auchinleck House (1964) is a 58-metre
13-storey office block at the Five Ways Shopping Centre. There
are plans to convert this building into a 4-star Park Regis
Hotel. |
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Boundary House |
|
Boundary House (1968) is a 38-metre 13-storey
tower block on Hollies Croft, next to the Edgbaston Cricket
Stadium. |
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Century Tower and Wickets Tower |
|
Century Tower (1968) on Dollery Drive and
Wickets Tower (1968) on Wyatt Close are a pair of identical
57-metre 20-metre tower blocks, next to Edgbaston Cricket
Stadium. |
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Edgbaston House |
|
Edgbaston House (1976) is a 69-metre 18-floor
commercial tower on the Duchess Place office estate at Five
Ways. Tenants include the Islamic Bank of Britain. |
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Chamberlain Clock Tower |
| The Chamberlain Clock Tower (1908) at the
University of Birmingham is a 100-metre tower modelled on the
Torre del Mangia in Sienna. |
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Edgbaston Waterworks |
| The Edgbaston Waterworks on Waterworks Road
contain several Victorian buildings in the Venetian Gothic
style, including a 20-metre polychrome brick tower with an
octagonal turret and truncated spire. |
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Five Ways Tower |
|
Five Ways Tower (1979) is a 76-metre 23-floor
office block at the junction of Islington Row and Frederick
Road. |
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Metropolitan House |
|
Metropolitan House (1974) is a 69-metre
19-storey office block on the Hagley Road, Five Ways. There are
plans to convert this building into 182 flats and four
additional penthouse floors and to build a second 14-storey
residential tower in the car park. |
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Muirhead Tower |
|
The Muirhead Tower (1971) at the University of
Birmingham is a 62-metre 16-storey twin tower with a
podium base. The podium contains a Starbucks cafe bar and the Allardyce Nicol Studio Theatre. |
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Perrots Folly |
| Perrott's Folly (1759) is a 29-metre red-brick
tower on Waterworks Road. |
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Tricorn House |
|
Tricorn House (1974) is a 50-metre 12-storey
office block on the Hagley Road. |
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Twelve Calthorpe Road |
|
12 Calthorpe Road is a 50-metre 12-storey
office block. |
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Canals in Edgbaston |
|
Worcester Canal |
| The
Worcester Canal runs
through Edgbaston alongside the Cross City Railway. It skirts the west side of the
university campus, passing University Station and the Vale
Student Village before travelling through a 96-metre tunnel
beneath Church Road. |
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Planning and Regeneration In Edgbaston |
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Edgbaston Conservation Area |
| The
Edgbaston Conservation Area preserves the
Regency suburb built by Baron Calthorpe in the early 19th
century. It contains over half of modern day Edgbaston and is
the largest conservation area in Birmingham. It includes
Edgbaston Hall, St George's Church. St Bartholomew's Church, the
Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Winterbourne House and countless
Georgian mansions and villas. The designated area also preserves
over 150 acres of parkland and playing fields. |
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Ryland Road Conservation Area |
| The
Ryland Road Conservation Area provides a
setting for several Regency townhouses of particular interest,
including a stucco terrace with moulded cornices, decorative
friezes and pilastered bays. |
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St Augustine Conservation Area |
| The
Saint Augustine Conservation Area provides
a setting for a mid-Victorian Gothic Revival church with a
landmark spire that stands on a grassed roundabout at the end of
a tree-lined avenue running off the Hagley Road. The surrounding
streets contain substantial Victorian houses set in ample mature
gardens. |
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Barnsley Road Conservation Area |
| The
Barnsley Road Conservation Area preserves
several Victorian mansions with extensive mature gardens, some
of which were designed in the Arts and Crafts Style by Ernest
Barnsley (1863-1926). |
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Hagley Road Retirement Village |
| The Extra Care Charitable Trust is developing
this retirement village in collaboration with Birmingham City
Council. It will be set in landscaped grounds and contain 240
apartments, a bar, fitness suite, library, cafe, restaurant,
shop, craft room, laundrette, indoor bowling green, guest suite
and woodwork area. |
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01.11.12: Edgbaston Square |
| An estate of 79 houses is being built behind
the Res Wyatt Stand at Edgbaston Cricket Stadium as the first
phase of the �120 million Edgbaston Square development that will
also include cafes, restaurants, bars, offices, a hotel and
multi-storey car park. A compulsory purchase order has been
obtained, enabling the demolition of 12 existing houses on the
Pershore Road to make room for the new development. |
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16.07.12: University of Birmingham To Build New Library |
| The University of Birmingham has unveiled
plans for a new library on its Edgbaston campus. The existing
library on University Square will be demolished and replaced by
a six-storey building with 13,000 square metres of floor space,
a cafe, exhibition hall and events venue. The project is costed
at �37 million. Work will begin in spring 2014. |
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16.07.12: University of Birmingham To Open Free School |
| The University of Birmingham will open a free
school for around 1,150 pupils aged 11-18 on a site near its
Edgbaston campus. It will focus on academic subjects with the
intention of getting pupils into top universities and will also
be used for teacher training. Pupils will be drawn from across
Birmingham and will not have to sit an entrance exam. |
|
03.03.12: Auchinleck House At Five Ways To Become Park Regis
Hotel |
| Developers have obtained planning permission
for the conversion of Auchinleck House, a 58-metre office block
at Five Ways, into a 4-star Park Regis Hotel. |
|
28.02.12: Application To Convert Five Ways Offices Into Flats |
| A planning application has been submitted for
the conversion of Metropolitan House, a 69-metre commercial
skyscraper on the Hagley Road, into 182 flats with the addition
of four penthouse floors. The developers also plan to build a
second 14-storey building in the car park for use as a
hotel/student halls. |
|
27.01.12: Hostel for Injured Servicemen to be Built at QE |
| Planning permission has been granted for a
hostel providing short-stay accommodation for up to 18 families
of wounded soldiers being treated at the Royal Centre for
Defence Medicine. The hostel will be built in the car park at QE
Hospital. |
|
22.06.10: Aldi at Edgbaston Mill |
| Aldi has unveiled plans for a food store at
Edgbaston Mill. |
|
Edgbaston Mill |
| Edgbaston Mill is a 9-acre development on
Edgbaston Road, opposite Edgbaston Cricket Ground. It will be
centred on a public square flanked by restaurant, leisure and
retail units and will include an Express-by-Holiday Inn, 344
residential apartments, and 6,000 square metres of grade A
office space. |
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11.09.11: Birmingham Dental Hospital |
| A planning application has been submitted for
a new six-storey school of dentistry and dental hospital on a
2.6-acre site at Pebble Mill.
06.12.12: Plans for the new dental hospital at Pebble Mill were approved by the Planning Committee
despite objections that the architecture resembled a Soviet-style building and that the
proposed number of parking spaces had been reduced from 292 to 247. |
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14.04.11: Planners Block Garden-Grabbing on Woodbourne Road |
| Planning officers have blocked an application
to build three detached five-and-six bedroom mansions in a back
garden off Woodbourne Road. |
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24.02.11: University Science Park |
| The former 12-acre site of the BBC Pebble Mill
studios on the Bristol Road is being redeveloped as offices and
laboratories, primarily for the medical and bioscience sector. |
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11.01.11: Barnsley Road |
| Six Victorian houses on Barnsley Road will be
demolished and 116 trees felled in order to construct an Extra
Care Charitable Trust retirement village for the over 55's. The
village will consist of 240 apartments and will contain a public
square, bar, restaurant, shop, library, hairdressers, activity
room and social club. 50% of apartments will be owner-occupied,
30% shared ownership and 20% affordable rent. |
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