Liam Byrne today started a big conversation amongst residents about the future of Hodge Hill.

The launch with a group of Liam's junior constituents was the public start of a campaign that's taken the Hodge Hill MP over a year's worth of planning.

Liam said:

"I’ve worked for over a year with residents' meetings, conferences and seminars to pull an ambitious vision we can share for the future of our community. Now I want to hear from young and old alike about how we turn dreams into reality."

Liam's HH2020 programme pulls together ideas from scores of meetings into a new masterplan for the physical regeneration of Hodge Hill. It centres on four ideas:

* A ‘Sports Corridor’ including redevelopment of public and educational green space

* A ‘Retail Quarter/Textile Hub’ centred on Alum Rock

* New housing for local families centred on Shard End

* A Science/Engineering corridor embracing LDV, the Heartlands and Alcoa and stretching to Birmingham airport

Please see the HH2020 page here.

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And if you missed Central News on ITV last Saturday teatime, please click here to go to the ITV Local website and see their coverage of HH2020. In the panel to the right of the video, scroll to 'Liam Byrne launches community project' and click 'play'.

Liam Byrne MP today called on Birmingham City Council to back his campaign to get more jobs in place for people in Washwood Heath and Shard End.

The Hodge Hill MP is calling on the City Council to make boosting jobs one of the priorities in the deal for delivery which the City Council must agree with the Government in May/June this year.

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