£10 MILLION HOUSING DEVELOPMENT UNVEILED BY BIRMINGHAM MP

May 18 2004

Dot Marshall who has lived in a flat in Shenley for 40 years chats to Richard Burden MP in the courtyard of her new bungalow.

• Phase One includes, refurbishment of parade of shops, 12 new bungalows, new park, 54 new homes.
• A new sundial was unveiled on the development site by Peter Dixon, the Chair of the Housing Corporation. The sundial was specially commissioned as part of the Trust's commitment to public art.
• The scheme includes a new medical centre to replace the former facility.
• The development will incorporate state of the art security equipment.
• The development will have an unprecedented amount of landscaping, in line with all Bournville Village Trust urban villages. The existing park has been completely renewed.
• Twenty 20 year old trees were purchased from Hamburg in Germany for landscaping in Shenley. They include lime, flowering crab and Himalayan Birch and a 5.5 metre high Christmas tree.

Phase One of a £10 million new housing scheme was officially opened by Richard Burden MP in South Birmingham.

Richard Burden MP unveils an oak leaf sculpture in the new park at Shenley.

Bournville Village Trust,(BVT) as developers of the scheme in Shenley, has refurbished an existing parade of shops, extended the car park; renewed the paving and lighting; provided close circuit television; built a state of the art medical centre and twelve new bungalows for rent for older people and totally renewed the existing BVT owned park. The scheme includes public art commissioned specifically for this scheme and fully mature trees, that are already twenty years old.

Alan Shrimpton, Director of Development at Bournville Village Trust said: "The proposals are a comprehensive approach to redevelopment and include high quality design that relates well to its context. The existing Shenley Fields was the biggest single development scheme embarked on by BVT in 1950."