Hodge Hill is an area 4 miles east of Birmingham City Centre,

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. It is also a council constituency, managed by its own district committee. The MP of Hodge Hill is currently Liam Byrne. The constituency includes the smaller constituency ward and the wards of

Bordesley Green Bordesley Green is an inner-city area of Birmingham, England about two miles east of the city centre. It also contains a road of the same name. It is in the Bordesley Green Ward which also covers some of Small Heath. Heartlands Hospital is lo ...

Shard End Shard End is an area of Birmingham, England. It is also a ward within the formal district of Hodge Hill. Shard End borders Castle Bromwich to the north and Kingshurst to the east which are situated in the northern part of the neighbouring Met ...

and

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Politics

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for the

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Hodge Hill Hodge Hill is an area 4 miles east of Birmingham City Centre, England. It is also a council constituency, managed by its own district committee. The MP of Hodge Hill is currently Liam Byrne. The constituency includes the smaller constituency ...

took place on 15 July 2004 after the resignation of sitting MP Terry Davis. It was won by Liam Byrne. The Hodge Hill Ward is currently represented by three councillors on

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. Hodge Hill Ward has adopted a Ward Support Officer.

2004 By-election result

Geography

The boundaries of the Hodge Hill Ward are defined by the M6 motorway to the north and A4040 outer circle to the west. Hodge Hill Common and the Cole Valley, which are covered by the

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, are major areas of open space within the ward.

Population

The 2001 Population Census recorded 24,825 people living within the ward with a population density of 4,566 people per km² compared with 3,649 people per km² for Birmingham. Ethnic minorities represent 13.9% (3,442) of the ward's population as opposed to 29.6% for Birmingham in general.

Transport

The B4114 Coleshill Road is the main road that separates the area. Stechford station on the

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line, as well as occasional services to

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via

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, serves the area. Coleshill Road was the A47 before 1997, when the Heartlands Spine Road was completed.

Facilities

The local library i
Glebe Farm Library
which was the first library to be built in Birmingham after

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. It was constructed out of pre-fabricated concrete sections and took one year to build. On 22 April 1952 it was opened to the public by Alderman Ralph Yates, then Lord Mayor of Birmingham. The Glebe Farm Local History Society gather at the library once every month. Shopping facilities are mainly provided at the Fox & Goose; however, many travel to nearby

Stechford Stechford is an area of East Birmingham, England, situated about five miles east of the city centre, bordering Ward End, Yardley, Hodge Hill and Kitts Green. Historically it lay within Worcestershire. History Stechford's history is unclear. ...

to shop.

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s in the area include Colebourne Primary School and Hodge Hill Primary School, while the main

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...

s serving the area are Hodge Hill College and

Hodge Hill Girls' School Hodge Hill Girls' School is a secondary school located in the Hodge Hill area of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. Formerly a grammar school, today it is a non-selective community school administered by Birmingham City Council. Hod ...

Special school Special education (known as special-needs education, aided education, exceptional education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, or SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates th ...

s in Hodge Hill include Beaufort School and Braidwood School for The Deaf.

People

People from Hodge Hill include: * Reuben Colley, artist *

Stefan Moore Stefan Leroy Moore (born 28 September 1983) is an English former footballer who played as a striker. He is a product of the Aston Villa Academy where he came through the ranks with his younger brother, Luke Moore, who went on to play for Asto ...

, footballer attended Hodge Hill College * Luke Moore, footballer attended Hodge Hill College

References

External links

Birmingham City Council: Hodge Hill ConstituencyBirmingham City Council: Hodge Hill Ward
Former wards of Birmingham, West Midlands {{WestMidlands-geo-stub