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Harborne’s loss is the City Centre’s gain.

Will 500 jobs lost from Harborne lead to the destruction of the Martineau Centre?

Harborne residents have formed a Community Group called the Martineau Ten to challenge local City Councillors to be transparent on the future of the Martineau Centre

Councillors need to identify parcels of land being sold to fund new building and refurbishment work in the city centre.  The inner chambers of the Council seem bent on depriving the suburbs of valuable and beautiful properties with multiple uses to load up the value of Inner City public works. These include the New Street Station, the refurbishing of Lancaster House (on Lancaster Circus), and the building of an enormous office block (have we none already) in Woodcock Street in Gosta Green.  Then there is the 50 metre Olympic Pool near the Convention Centre, and of course the New Library.  They’ve borrowed the money on the strength of these parcels of unidentified “building land” but they have buildings on them already, probably more worthy to survive than the above fripperies.   One of these is the Martineau Centre in Balden Road Harborne, the Playing field behind it and the allotments beyond that. A catalogue of care for the disadvantaged may be seen in the 1848-1949 Souvenir of the Centenary Celebrations of Tennal School Birmingham (Incorporating an account of the Reformatory and Industrial School Movement   

Hard questions need to be asked why the inner city circle is selling off the suburbs to support the city

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