MOSELEY SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING DOCUMENT 2014 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The preparation of this document has been led by the Moseley Regeneration, with the assistance of officers from Birmingham City Council Planning & Regeneration. Thanks must, however, be extended to the following for their generous support and advice; • Moseley and Kings Heath Ward Councillors • West Midlands Planning Aid, Staff & Volunteers • Students from the University of Birmingham Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) CONTENTS • Residents, businesses and school children of Moseley • Photographic credits; Moseley CDT, William Baldwin, Brett Wilde & Moseley Local Forward History Society 1 Planning Policy CONTACTS 1.0 Introduction • Economy Directorate 1.1 The production process Birmingham City Council 1.2 Purpose of this plan 1 Lancaster Circus 1.3 Moseley: the place and people Birmingham B4 7DJ 1.4 Sustainability BY POST: 2. The Moseley Plan PO Box 28 Birmingham B1 1TU 2.0 Planning policy context 2.1 The Moseley Plan E: [email protected] 2.2 Moseley local policies T: (0121) 303 3121 • Moseley regeneration Group / CDT 3. Implementation The Moseley Exchange 149 - 153 Alcester Road 4. Relevant Development Plan Policies Moseley Birmingham B13 8JP Glossary E: [email protected] Appendix: T: (0121) 449 8585 The following appendicies can be found on either Birmingham City Council’s Planning website www.birmingham.gov.uk/moseleyspd You can ask for a copy of this document in large print, another or on Moseley CDT’s at www.moseleycdt.com format or another language. We aim to supply what you need 1 Big 7 Consultation summary report within ten working days. 2 Moseley Proposals map 3 Proposed Community Assets 4 Moseley Shop Front Design Guide 1992 Call (0121) 303 3121 5 Survey plans - Historic assets - Open Space If you have hearing difficulites please call us via Typetalk 18001 0121 303 3121 or e-mail us at the - Employment sites address above. Plans contained within this document are based upon Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. © Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Birmingham City Council. Licence number 100021326, 2013. 3 FORWARD MOSELEY - Birmingham has a long THE COMMUNITY’S history of community VISION planning, stretching back to the Urban Renewal 1.0.5 Moseley will be a 1.0.7 Moseley will become a • its historical legacy is programmes of the 1970’s. I creative and enterprising neighbourhood where: protected; urban neighbourhood welcome this community-led • its strong sense of place is that makes a distinctive • there is a diverse local document as a continuation retained; of that tradition. contribution to the city’s economy based around economic and cultural life, small businesses, tourism • its natural environment(s) Sitting within the hierarchy whilst retaining its unique and cultural activity. enhance the communities of Development Framework sense of place and history. health and well being; St Mary’s Row • there is diversity within plans, this Supplementary the local community and • the Village is a vibrant The Moseley SPD Planning Document (SPD) is 1.0.6 people feel secure, well- independent local centre will take forward the City’s another tool in the planning The production of this the future. In so doing, connected and able to – people want to live, draft BDP objectives ‘toolkit.’ Taken together with spatial Planning Document, it will make a distinctive make a contribution to their work, shop and spend their for sustainable growth, other regeneration strategies is testament to the positive contribution to the city’s community; leisure time; and Ward Development value of community diverse economic and cultural investment and job Plans, the SPD will provide engagement. Local people, life, whilst retaining its sense opportunities, while reducing • residents, businesses and • there is a diverse and active justification for, and add together with their elected of place and character. its carbon footprint. stakeholders have influence community sector. weight to funding bids, as Ward Members, have worked over the quality of life in the well as helping to determine closely with officers of the Cllr Tahir Ali neighbourhood; planning applications and City Council to deliver a Cabinet Member for promoting the economic vision for Moseley that will Development, Jobs and welfare of the area. provide robust guidance for Skills. The plan covers the area shown on the map, including Moseley Village centre and 1.0 INTRODUCTION surrounding areas. 1.0.1 In preparing this 1.0.2 The local community community organisations. land use framework, the and other local stakeholders The SPD will replace the views and aspirations of a believe that they can make Moseley Action Plan SPG wide spectrum of Moseley a real contribution to the (1992). people have been sought. development of economic, Collating the diverse social and environmental 1.0.4 To help ensure responses to the Moseley initiatives in Moseley. that these aspirations are Big Plan conversations, These will strengthen the delivered, this document has and then combining them neighbourhood’s character been prepared in the context with the comments from and preserve the qualities of the Birmingham Plan, the myriad interest groups that the stakeholders 2005 Unitary Development that make up Moseley, has value most. Plan (UDP) and the draft been challenging. However, Birmingham Development following amendments made 1.0.3 The plan has been Plan 2014 (BDP) and other to the plan as a result of developed as a partnership relevant city wide land use the extensive consultation between the local community policies. exercise undertaken during and Birmingham City the summer of 2013, it has Council (BCC). A community now been adopted as a organisation, the Moseley Supplementary Planning Regeneration Group (MRG), Document and forms part of led its preparation and fed in the City Council’s statutory the thoughts and aspirations land use framework. of the local business and 4 5 1.1 THE 1.2 PURPOSE What local people said: PRODUCTION OF THIS “Moseley should be an inclusive showcase sustainable economic PROCESS PLAN place recognising positive social growth for Birmingham and be 1.1.1 In preparation for this The process involved 1.2.1 This Supplementary change and looking forward. It can a truly creative village.” plan, a public consultation using volunteers from local Planning Document sets out be a shop window for our city to exercise was undertaken by community groups, University policies and proposals for the “More trees and less traffic.” the Moseley Regeneration of Birmingham students and Moseley area. These develop Group with support Planning Aid West Midlands the guidance provided in the from Planning Aid West staff and volunteers. UDP, draft BDP and other Midlands. This exercise Particular efforts were made national and local policy and and policies to ensure that It is well-connected by Green Road) that links the was called Moseley’s Big to consult with the harder to will help inform decisions the principles of sustainable road to the rest of the city local centres at Acocks Plan and involved residents reach groups: children, young on planning applications. development are met. The and is dissected by two Green, Moseley and responding to the ‘Big people, SA was reviewed as part of road corridors. The arterial Five Ways. 7 Questions’ that the 20-30-year olds and those the consultation process and road A435 (Alcester Road) Regeneration Group had from minority ethnic groups. remains appropriate. connecting the centre to posed (see Appendix). The the south and the B4217 consultation was promoted 1.1.2 The results of the (Salisbury Road and Wake to all residents in the study consultation were analysed area, businesses, community and can be found at www. 1.3 MOSELEY – organisations and schools. moseleycdt.com. Informal Residents were able to local consultation and THE PLACE respond on the Moseley dialogue with Birmingham M6 Community Development City Council and other AND PEOPLE The City Council’s Planning 1.3.1 Moseley was originally Committee, residents, local a rural hamlet surrounded M6 traders, funding bodies and by farmland. It is now a developers will all need mature residential suburb to refer to this document approximately 4km south M6 while planning and making of the city centre. One of M6 decisions about development Birmingham’s remaining A34 in the area, or initiatives to Victorian suburbs, the A38 M6 improve the quality of life. area has a long standing reputation of being a home M5 City Centre 1.2.2. The existing Moseley for the arts. It is known Action Plan SPG (1992) was as a vibrant and creative reviewed in the production neighbourhood, with active of this new document; it has residents all working in A45 now been superseded. different ways to improve A38 their environment. M5 A41 Farmers’ Market 1.2.3 A Sustainability Moseley A34 Trust website, by writing their organisations has been Appraisal (SA) and an 1.3.2 Moseley lies mainly comments on a postcard ongoing and has informed Equalities Assessment within the electoral ward of that could be left at various the objectives, guidance and accompany this document Moseley and Kings Heath A435 outlets in the Village proposals in this document. and can be found on the (and part of neighbouring A38 Centre, by attending public web pages of the City Springfield Ward) within workshops or by completing Council. They examine the the Hall Green Constituency. street surveys in Moseley environmental and social Village. effects of the strategies 6 7 THE HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT 1.3.5 Moseley’s historic listed buildings including buildings and landscapes are Highbury, two registered among its greatest assets. historic parks – Cannon Their importance has been Hill and Highbury, as well recognised by the creation as Moseley Park and Pool of two Conservation Areas.