UKREiiF 2024: BIRMINGHAM IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS. Part 2

The Leader of Birmingham City Council John Cotton's message to UKREiiF was that the council's current difficulties do not define Birmingham.

His message was quite simply this: Birmingham is open for business - and the many factors that have attracted record levels of investment in recent years are the very reasons why we will ride out the current storm.

Birmingham knows that businesses, investors, and developers are vital to the City's bright future, and we will continue to work collaboratively with you to deliver homes, jobs and opportunities for the people and communities of our great city.

Over the years, our city has reinvented itself many times over, and each reinvention has relied on the public and private sectors working in harmony to deliver a shared vision.

Following an intensive period of consultation and engagement we have now adopted Our Future City: Central Birmingham Framework - the route map to a greener future of more jobs, better transport options and higher quality, energy efficient new homes.

It will double our green spaces to a level comparable with Vienna and double our active travel routes to 200km - the same level of healthy transport infrastructure as Copenhagen.

The plan has the potential to create 74,000 new jobs - that's an 80 per cent increase on our city centre's current employment capacity.

And it will create up to 35,000 new homes for our young and growing population.

Of course, I know that it's one thing to write strategies - it's quite another to deliver them.

And Birmingham is delivering.

The message to take back from UKREiiF is that;

'BIRMINGHAM IS A CITY ON THE UP'