A VISION for the future regeneration of Birmingham city centre was unveiled by the city council and leading property industry figures.
The Big City Plan has been resurrected two years after its original was published with new claims of 50,000 jobs created and 1.5m sq metres of new office, retail, leisure and cultural floorspace.
The original masterplan was the brainchild of the council’s former planning and regeneration director Clive Dutton but he left the authority last year and has only just been replaced by Mark Barrow.
It was blighted by the recession as developers stepped back from various projects with others criticising the first Big City Plan for being too vague.
City council leader Cllr Mike Whitby said last week: “Our Big City Plan will provide a clear blueprint for investors, businesses and residents alike – with the detail, the grain and the soul, which I believe will inspire imaginations across the world – and capture billions of extra investment and value for our local economy.”
