It’s this sort of development over the last 30 years that has destroyed British high streets. Drive to the Lidl, buy everything, drive home, ignore the local shops.

This needs 4 storeys of apartments on top and minimal parking to suit its location. Otherwise it should be refused.

This is a sustainable location but it is not sustainable development.

Just because the location is sustainable doesn’t automatically make whatever you build in it sustainable, whether that’s a surface car park and a big Lidl on a high street or a coal mine next to a bus stop.

With increased frequency or express tram services between interchange/airport via passing tracks around intermediate stops it would have been part of a better integrated network and be delivered in time for HS2 opening.

It would also be far more valuable to the development of Arden Cross.

A city the size of Brum should have had a tram network like GM’s Metrolink AND an underground/metro like T&W decades ago…

*Apparently since a 2013 decision by the flag institute, Union Jack is fine irrespective of where it’s flown. You learn something new every day. Shame to ruin such a pithy remark though.

Reform-style gutter politics offering nothing but plastic flags, in fact worse than nothing as it’s preventing essential upgrades.

Also it’s called the Union Flag, not the Union Jack, unless you’re at sea, which I suppose the Tories are.

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