Woodgate is an area of
Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...
,
West Midlands, England, between
Bartley Green
Bartley Green is a residential suburban area and electoral ward in Birmingham, England, south west of the city centre. The ward is part of the Birmingham Edgbaston constituency and is represented in parliament by Labour Co-operative MP Preet G ...
and
Harborne
Harborne is an affluent area sited south-west of Birmingham, in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It is a Birmingham City Council ward (politics), ward in the Government of Birmingham, England#Districts, formal district and ...
. It is split up into 3 parts, Woodgate Valley South (also known as South Woodgate), which is the gateway to Harborne. Woodgate, which is next to Bartley Green, and Woodgate Valley North, often referred as part of
Quinton.
Revised plans disclosed by Birmingham Council's Public Works Committee in 1968 show new housing for 20,000 people (17,000 in council-built and 3,000 in private-built homes), double the original number put forward two years earlier. The plans also show a proposed Woodgate/Edgbaston Expressway road from the M5 junction 3 routed along the southern part of Woodgate Valley, and a boating lake north of
Hillcrest School, Birmingham
Hillcrest School is a secondary school for girls (and mixed sixth form) in the California area of Bartley Green, Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England.
History
It was established as Bartley Green Grammar School for Girls on 7 September ...
, known then as Bartley Green Grammar School. At a public meeting held at
Four Dwellings School in April 1968 the chairman of the Public Works Committee explained the housing scheme was essential to help eradicate Birmingham's remaining slums. In February 1970 it was announced dwellings would be built on both sides of the valley. Provision for car parking was emphasised; each home having a car port or garage, and some having an integral garage with the living accommodation on top using the slope of the land. The number of homes was put at 4,600 with half now private. Following a public inquiry into the proposed expressway a new route north of the valley was mooted.
The first residents of Woodgate Valley South moved on to the housing estate in 1971.
References
External links
1884 Ordnance Survey map of Woodgate
Areas of Birmingham, West Midlands
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