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Award Winning Architect Joins Bournville Architects

An award winning architect has been appointed to head up Bournville Architects. 38 years old Ian Tipton who has won a number of design competitions throughout the UK, is the new Executive Director of Bournville Architects, part of Bournville Village Trust, the charity founded by George Cadbury in 1900 to manage his housing estate. Ian has considerable experience in all sectors of the construction industry, including regeneration, new build and refurbishment projects. click here

£25 Million Housing Development Starts On Site

A £25 million housing development in South Birmingham is to start on site on July 21, despite the current economic climate. The number of homes being built in Britain has slipped to its lowest level since 1945 and plummeting construction activity is expected to lose the industry as much as 100,000 jobs. click here

Housing association offers hope for the financially excluded

With the risk of an impending recession and more and more people in the UK getting CCJ’s as well as an increase in home repossessions, Bournville Village Trust Housing Association is tackling the growing problem of financial exclusion by linking up with a community credit union to offer financial services for its tenants. click here

Richard Burden MP opens desperately needed games area in Shenley, South Birmingham

Young people in Shenley, South Birmingham had their very own July 4 celebrations when desperately needed leisure facilities were opened on Friday July 4 by Richard Burden MP. Bournville Village Trust (BVT) has developed a floodlit Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) in Green Meadow Road which will provide an outdoor sports facility that will be used by the adjacent youth centre, Green Meadow Primary School and the local community. click here

Cadbury Family Member Unveils £250,000 Restoration of Almshouses in Bournville

Residents of Bournville’s Almshouse Trust applauded their new surroundings as Roger Cadbury, Chair of Bournville Village Trust and Almshouse Trust unveiled new railings and rang the new bells in the Quadrangle Tower, all part of a £250,000 restoration project.  The new railings and gates which were removed in the 1940s as part of the war effort to recycle iron, was the final stage in a ten year plan to restore the Grade II listed building in Mary Vale Road. click here

Resident Surfers Help To Improve Housing Association Web Site

Surfing got a whole lot easier when a local housing association called on its tenants to help redesign its web site. The Bournville Village Trust web site is now much more user friendly. Enter the tenant section and acess over thirty pages of easy to read information. click here

Restoring Birmingham’s Long Lost Heritage

Second world war railings are restored in Bournville using traditional blacksmith skills. A grant from two local trusts will help to restore a piece of Birmingham’s long lost heritage in Bournville. click here

Former Residents Make Way for £25 Million Housing Development in South Birmingham

Eighty five years old Bob Hill (pictured) with four other former residents of Black Haynes Road in Shenley, South Birmingham helped to demolish the maisonette where he used to live. Brian Field, Bob and Christine Hill, Kathleen Clements and her grandson Robert watched as the giant excavator ate its way through the 1950’s and 1960’s flats and maisonettes which were built by Bournville Village Trust, a Birmingham housing association and developer, established by George Cadbury in 1900. click here

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