Talking about the Big City Plan
The Big City Plan is a “masterplan” being worked up by Birmingham City Council in order to present a vision for the development of the City Centre over the next 20 years. It has a lot of options, questions and information in it — and it’s currently going through a consultation process (no doubt you will have seen the taxis and posters).
When it came to blogging about it, a few of us felt that that was difficult because:
- It’s a huge dense document full of overlapping ideas, and it’s difficult to pull out one piece to discuss (you have to go over everything to make sense).
- There wasn’t a way to discuss in a central place.
So we had quite a long meeting at December’s Birmingham Social Media Cafe, and decided that we could treat the plan as a blog — each section commentable on, linkable to, and with as much information as possible (which meant researching and finding links about a lot of planning ideas and documents).
It took a long while to do — but it’s now up at bigcitytalk.org.uk.
Please feel free to link to it, copy chunks of the blogged version for your own use, but most of all go discuss and comment and feedback to the Council about the Big City Plan — so we can make Birmingham as good as it can be.
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