Birmingham Gun Quarter To Be Stripped Of It's Name

[KurtNicoll]

We received the attached response from Councillor Huxtable, to an email I sent last night. Could it be our wonderful media have it wrong?


"Dear John and Josie Milewski

With regard to your recent email over the "renaming" of the Gun Quarter, as
you can see from the map/diagram below, which will be page 82 of the Big
City Plan,

the historic Gun Quarter is included in, and continues to be part of, the
much larger/wider area of St George & St Chad's, which incorporates an area
much bigger than the historic Gun Quarter (i.e. out to the ring road at New
John Street West) and more accurately reflects the entire area rather than
just one section of the area.

No signposts referring to the "Gun Quarter" are being changed nor any other
changes (such as to the Gun Quarter Controlled Parking Zone) are being made
as BCC still recognises the historic Gun Quarter, just as BCC still
recognise the Chinese and Irish Quarters, even though no areas within the
Big City Plan (see page 11) are large enough to carry these names.

What we are doing, as we have done elsewhere in the 'Big City Plan' is to
include quarters within larger areas. Thus the 'Chinese Quarter' is
included as part of the "Southside and Highgate" area (see page 60 of the
Big City Plan) and the 'Irish Quarter' as part of the "Digbeth" area (see
page 57).

I hope this sets the record straight and correct media coverage which has
been misleading at best and inaccurate at worst.


Yours sincerely

Timothy Huxtable

Councillor Timothy Huxtable
Cabinet Member - Transport, Environment & Regeneration, BCC"

Kind regards,
John

Exactly the same response that I got. Sounds plausible, but again, he is a politician[ aka professional conjuror of the truth], so I think that we need to watch this space very carefully. Kurt

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Whilst we're at it, can we have christmas back. Not impressed with "Winterval"