1. HS2 in Birmingham and the
threat of local severance
Joe Holyoak

2. Urban design principle no.17:
Every urban design intervention, at
whatever scale, has an obligation to
improve the movement of people in
the town.

3. The Mailbox: helping to join up
the disconnected city

4. The proposed new
Birmingham HS2 terminal

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

8. The Inner Ring Road as originally designed

9. The elevated Masshouse Circus being
demolished in about 2003

10. The new Moor Street boulevard, replacing the
Inner Ring Road

11. Eastside
Digbeth
City
centre

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

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