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Email: info@localisewestmidlands.org.uk

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New Heart of Shirley?

An assessment of potential impacts on the community and of justification for the proposals

A mixed use development including housing, shops, offices, parking, public space and a superstore has been proposed for the small town centre of Shirley, near Solihull, West Midlands.

Following conversations with Town Centre Partnership members, including the campaign group against the development, Keep Shirley Alive, LWM produced a report on the potential impacts of the development, the assessments that were carried out before the brief was drawn up, and the community involvement processes surrounding it. The report also includes case studies of other in-centre and edge-of-centre developments.

The report was not conducted to a KSA brief, nor were LWM paid for the report by KSA or anyone else. LWM is undertaking this report on account of its own objectives in local economic development, and to its own brief. Because LWM have a background in work on local centres and the social and community aspects of economic activity rather than traditional retail analysis, the report will hopefully provide information that might not otherwise be available to local people, and at an earlier stage of the process.

The report can be found as a .pdf document here.

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