Highgate has suddenly become Lowgate.
I rode through what was formally knows as ‘Highgate’ today and discovered most of the high-rise flats were either gone or going.
What ashame it is to see parts of Birmingham deteriorate like this.
Lets hope they build more ‘apartments’ in the void because that is just what we Birmingham folk need.
I think they call it ‘Regeneration’.
Regeneration my foot, it seems our council either overlook prime spots for development or bulldoze them.
Look at what is going on over at the ‘Lower east side’ aka Digbeth.
Amazing buildings raised to the ground leaving nothing but rubble, all for the sake of apartments that may be built…
Years of Birmingham history, erased.
Tags: apartments, birmingham, development, flats, planning
February 12, 2009 at 10:48 pm |
I dont feel weve lost anything important there!
Theres been a lot of amazing historic building torn down in the past few years, a lot of lost industrial heritage.
The most pukeworthy WTF moment was when they started filling in the subway at old snow hill.
That subway contained the best most meaningful piece of public art in the city. It was one of the best public murals in the country, acting as a memorial to John F. Kennedy.
http://www.irishforum.co.uk/uploads/images/jfk1.jpg
For no reason at all, before they filled it in, the guy on the digger went about smashing the mural to bits!
So if it is ever dug up in the future, there will be nothing but a blank wall.
By the way, I have loads of pictures & videos of the mathew boulton demoliton
February 13, 2009 at 8:36 am |
Wankers.