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Shaping Birmingham's Future Together Marketplaces 2025

Thank you for expressing your interest in attending the Shaping Birmingham's Future Together Marketplace Roadshow! The Shaping Birmingham's Future Together partnership has launched a roadshow of community marketplaces starting in January 2025 Objectives of the Marketplaces The marketplaces aim to create an inclusive space for Birmingham residents to: Inform : Provide citizens with information about available services and support from Birmingham...

Closes 31 December 2025

Help shape how the Council communicates our city’s identity and pride

Tell us what you think about Birmingham City Council's brand. Get involved and be creative. Birmingham City Council is taking time to listen and understand how we can better represent the people and places that make Birmingham so special. We want the councils brand to reflect not just what the Council does, but what it stands for. To achieve this, it’s important that the identity comes from a sense of place and shared values. People who live and work...

Closes 1 January 2026

Proposed Admission Arrangements for September 2027/2028

Birmingham City Council faclitiates the consultation on the proposed admission arrangements for all own admission authority schools within Birmingham, that have instructed the Council to carry out the consultation on their proposed admissions arrangements for the 2027/2028 academic year on their behalf.

Closes 5 January 2026

Chilcote Safer Routes to School scheme

This scheme is being proposed to address road safety concerns in the area along and around Chilcote School. This project is funded by the Local Improvement Budget – Transportation and Highways Fund, which seeks to address minor transport issues that are identified at a ward level. Overview of proposals: Installation of: Bollards to prevent vehicles from mounting the pavement and protect people walking Pedestrian refuges to improve...

Closes 9 January 2026

Cranes Park Road traffic calming scheme

This traffic calming scheme is being proposed to address speeding issues in the area along and around Cranes Park Road. This project is funded by the Local Improvement Budget – Transportation and Highways Fund, which seeks to address minor transport issues that are identified at a ward level. The proposals include: Refuge island (to provide a safe place for people walking to stop and wait for a gap in traffic) on Shaftsbury Road at its junction with...

Closes 9 January 2026 See more

Closed consultations and engagement

Issues we’ve asked you about in the past that are now closed

Local Plan - Focused Preferred Options Consultation 2025

The next stage of the Local Plan process is the Focused Preferred Options Document (FPOD), which we are consulting upon now. The public consultation period opens on Thursday 23 October and closes on Friday 19 December 2025. Please use the link below to take you to the Planning Consultation Portal, where you can either read the FPOD or read and register to submit comments. The FPOD is a Discussion Paper on the proposed Development Strategy for the City up to 2044 and a series of...

Closed 19 December 2025

Holt Street at Lister Street modal filter - Experimental Traffic Regulation Order

As part of the Birmingham Transport Plan , the city council aims to reduce traffic in areas to make it safer for people to walk, wheel and cycle. Holt Road experiences high levels of traffic for what is an unclassified road. Speeding and dangerous driving are a common occurrence as motorists cut through or “rat run” to avoid the main Dartmouth island junction. With Aston University and Aston University Engineering Academy expanding their premises,...

Closed 12 December 2025

City Centre to A457 Dudley Road cycle route

In 2020, we installed temporary ‘pop-up’ cycle lanes across the city to help people travel safely and actively during the COVID-19 pandemic. The routes chosen aligned with the Birmingham Walking and Cycling Strategy and Infrastructure Plan , which set out proposals for a city-wide cycle network. In many cases, these temporary cycle lanes included ‘light segregation’ from other traffic using plastic posts. In November 2021, we consulted on making the cycle route from the...

Closed 12 December 2025 See more

Your impact

Issues we have consulted on and their outcomes. See all outcomes.

Organisation Beeches Infants & Juniors Amalgamate two schools Stat Pub

We asked

To seek the determination of a statutory proposal by Birmingham City Council  (LA) of Amalgamate Beeches Infant and Beeches Junior School (the School) to:

• Discontinue Beeches Infant School;
• Enlarge Beeches Junior School
• Alter the age range of Beeches Junior School to 4 – 11 year olds
• Implementation 1st September 2026

You said

A total of 11 responses were received - 11 in favour

The responses were from - 2 from Parent / Carer of pupils at the School, 3 from Governors at the School, 5 from Staff Members at the School and 1 from other.

We did

We analysised the consultation results and provided the decision maker with a copy of the summary and all comments received for their consideration (Personal or identifying information is removed from responses before sharing with the decision maker).

The decision maker approved the proposal for implementation. Please see decision letter attached to this webpage. A full copy of the decision report can be found via a link at the bottom of this webpage.

On 3rd December 2025 the Council determined to implement the proposal as approved. The proposal will be implemented September 2026. A link to the decision report can be found at the bottom of this webpage (this includes a summary of the consultation results).

School Organisation Bellfield RB SOT10206

We asked

Birmingham City Council asked for your comments on the proposal to Establish Special Educational Needs (SEN) Provision in a mainstream school by providing a SEN Resource Base at Bellfield Junior School for up to 12 pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

You said

A total of 46 responses were received, 1 in favour and 2 did not answer. The responses were from 1 local resident and 2 other.

We did

We analysed the consultation results and provided the decision maker with a copy of the summary and all comments received for their consideration (Personal or identifying information is removed from responses before sharing with the decision maker).

The decision maker approved the proposal for implementation. Please see decision letter attached to this webpage. A full copy of the decision report can be found via a link at the bottom of this webpage.

On 29 August 2025 Birmingham City Council determined to implement the proposal as approved. The proposal will be implemented 1st Janusary 2026. A link to the decision report can be found at the bottom of this webpage (this includes a summary of the consultation results).

 

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