• Good Growth for Cities report calls for the Midlands  recovery to look beyond national GDP and double-down on efforts to address the individual socio-economic challenges facing towns and cities to level-up inequalities.  

A collaboration has been struck between the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and five of the region’s leading housing associations to accelerate and increase the number of affordable homes for local people. 

Businesses and communities across Birmingham are being called upon to help shape a bold new future for their city.

Detail, the Birmingham-based end-to-end property development and construction business, has become a commercial partner of the West Midlands Growth Company.

Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership has welcomed Ed Watson as its new Interim Chief Executive. Ed Watson will be in post as Katie Trout takes maternity leave.

Works have begun to transform land at Birmingham’s world-renowned Edgbaston Stadium to create a new entrance plaza, car parking facilities and ‘The Edgbaston Residences’ complex, which will comprise 375 high quality residential apartments and new retail and leisure opportunities.

The West Midlands remains a leading location for startups, defying challenges to business confidence posed by the Coronavirus pandemic, new data reveals. 

City of Wolverhampton Council is set to finalise plans for the second phase of Wolverhampton Art Gallery improvement works to start in June 2021.

The Birmingham Organising Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Ltd is seeking to appoint a supplier to design, engineer and fabricate the Queen’s Baton for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Queens Baton Relay.  

Millennium Point has announced that it will become the first Covid-19 mass vaccination centre to operate in the Midlands.

One of the world’s oldest surviving pieces of monumental railway architecture to be preserved and enhanced in new HS2 Curzon Street Station.