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Birmingham City Centre/Eastside

HS2 Station & Station SquareKey Principles:

– A high quality landmark station

– New pedestrian connections to Digbeth

– A major public square fronting the station

– High standards of sustainability and design

– Efficient links to public transport connections

– Improved pedestrian flows

Moor Street today – a need for transformation

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Some transformation has already happened - Moor Street in 2002

Traffic / pedestrian conflicts    Visual clutter    Obstacles to pedestrian movement Unappealing or uncoordinated public realm    Underutilised space – people don’t use medianLack of high quality city gateway    Poor legibility / confusion – esp. between stations

Moor Street today – poor sense of arrival

The aspiration - Make a better quality place out of Moor Street

Sheaf Square and Gold Route, Sheffield O’Connell Street, Dublin Lime Street Gateway, Liverpool

Lime Street Station, Liverpool - 2009

Lime Street Station, Liverpool - 2010

HS2/Eastside Masterplan - Establishes the need to look in more detail at Moor Street

Future new developments are all pedestrian trip generators

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Existing 1 Bullring 2 Pavilions 3 Millennium Point 4 Mathew Boulton College 5 New lines at Moor StFuture 6 Park 7 BCU 8 Gateway 9 HS2 10 Hotel La Tour 11 ‘Martineau’ site 12 Masshouse 13 Ormiston Academy

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New developments will lead to pedestrians dominating, and encourage rapid transit

Moor Street – the next 25 years

• Boosting the West Midlands' economy by £2.5 billion.

• Up to 60-70,000 local jobs by 2040 as a result of relocation of jobs from other areas in the UK.

• An increase in West Midlands GVA of almost 6% by 2040.

Benefits of HS2

Current images for the HS2 terminal do not consider the adjoining public realm

New Station Square’s for Moor Street and HS2

- make the best possible arrival experience for visitors

SnowHill

Public space overlay at same scale Main Square, Brindleyplace

Public space overlay at same scale Victoria Square

Reducing through traffic will free-up the space for better public realm

SnowHill

Car parking

Car parking

Opportunity for a better public realm, paved highway, shared space, wider pedestrian areas

Connecting Birmingham Sprint / Metro with HS2 makes the best possible interchange

New Squares and an organised plan of links make the most legible and positive experience for pedestrians

Plaza

2014 – 2026 possible 1st phase scheme in advance of HS2 - Shared space plaza with Birmingham Sprint

2026 with opening HS2 terminal

2026 with HS2 - Glazed canopies could link with style and form of the terminal

Working without Pavilions redevelopment

How it could work with a redeveloped Pavilions site

View from completed HS2 entrance c.2026 with Birmingham Sprint - Showing the potential for new commercial development

2026 with HS2 open - A station square with green spaces

The better alternative to aim for in 2026…