Mary Keating of the Save Smallbrook campaign argues that the proposed demolition of Smallbrook Ringway Centre in favour of the building of tower blocks won’t help Brummies on the Housing Register. Housing is a key issue for many of our…
It’s not over yet. The Save Smallbrook group is stepping up its campaign to rescue one of Birmingham’s most significant heritage buildings from demolition. We have instructed a top climate and heritage barrister to act on our behalf following the…
It’s happening – Smallbrook Ringway Centre application is going to Birmingham City Council’s Planning Committee. JOIN US ON THURSDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 10:30am. Council House, Victoria Square, rooms 3 & 4. Please book here: Save Smallbrook Ringway Centre Please join us…
The next step in the campaign to Save Smallbrook Queensway by zero carbon house, Brutiful Birmingham, The Modernist, and The Twentieth Century Society is an objection to the Design Stage Whole Life Carbon Assessment report, written by the developer’s agent Turley. It’s viewable by…
Can you help with distributing flyers and posters, setting up/invigilating and exhibition, setting up our retrofit Wendy house and helping with our retrofit street performance, meeting and greeting people, making tea, being human signposts? Retrofit Balsall Heath is hosting two…
We are excited to welcome a free travelling exhibition called Letters from the Global South. Letters from the Global South is a project offered by Zero Hour, IFEES (International Federation of Ecological and Environmental Sciences) and Muslims Declare. Do book on…
We at Retrofit Balsall Heath are celebrating our first anniversary year! Retrofit Balsall Heath has a vision to cut people’s fuel bills AND make homes warmer. We would love to share with you what we have achieved in one year…
The campaign to save Smallbrook Queensway has been covered by The Birmingham Post and Private Eye. The Birmingham Post has published a robustly argued piece by Mary Keating: “Democracy demolished as objections hit a brick wall.” Mary, who represents Brutiful…
Zero carbon house has teamed up with Brutiful Birmingham, The Modernist, and The Twentieth Century Society to advocate retrofit for a very special building. The Ringway Centre, by James Roberts (1962), on Smallbrook Queensway is one of the few Brutalist…
All are warmly invited to RETROFIT REIMAGINED mini-festival in Birmingham, 13-16 July! zero carbon house is collaborating with: Civic Square, New Economics Foundation, Dark Matter Labs, Architects Climate Action Network ACAN and a galaxy of Retrofit stars to explore the question: “What…