HS2 in Birmingham and the threat of local severance

Joe Holyoak

Urban design principle no.17:

Every urban design intervention, at whatever scale, has an obligation to improve the movement of people in the town.

The Mailbox: helping to join up the disconnected city

The proposed new Birmingham HS2 terminal

The Eastside Masterplan; Glenn Howells Architects for Birmingham City Council, December 2011.

The Inner Ring Road as originally designed

The elevated Masshouse Circus being demolished in about 2003

The new Moor Street boulevard, replacing the Inner Ring Road

The old barrier –

the In

ner Ring Road

The new barrier –

the HS2 station

Eastside

Digbeth

Citycentre

HS2 station

Streets to remain open coloured green.Streets to be closed coloured pink.

Looking up Fazeley Street from Digbeth towards the city centre: a major connection to disappear