MOSELEY STATION

PLANS FOR MOSELEY RAILWAY STATION ARE OUT - AND WE NEED YOU!

Our plans for Railway Station junction

Plans have been proposed for the new railway station for Moseley. Check out http://

eplanning.idox.birmingham. gov.uk/publisher/mvc/listD ocuments?identifier=Planni ng&reference=2020/03676/

PA or simply search on Birmingham.gov.uk for the details of 2020/03676/PA planning application.

There is much to look at in these 49 documents covering everything from station designs to environmental

issues.

The Forum with the support of other Moseley groups has been in discussion with the West Midlands Rail Executive (WMRE), Highways and the Mayor’s office over the plans for some time now, raising issues such as:

• Is there a need for a drop off zone as we try to reduce the impact of cars?

Woodbridge Rd to the station forecourt which is from St Mary’s Row – but the slopes are too unstable and would cost too much to put in paths. We’ve asked for space for lifts so they could be put in when money becomes available (they’d cost about £1-2 million!)

• We totally disagreed with their plans for traffic lights at the station entrance. This would increase pollution from idling traffic, would increase

• We put forward our own plans for that junction, based on those produced by Phil Jones Associates (PJA) for the whole centre of Moseley which would make it more user-friendly

As a result, the Mayor’s office is fully behind our own proposals and the WMRE have asked PJA to bring our proposals up to the level of detail of their plans. This is to be found in the first document of the planning application “covering letter from applicant”, pages 3 and 4. If our plans pass their safety audit they will replace the original WMRE traffic lights plans.

The original Moseley Railway Road Junction

What we’d like you to do is to object to the traffic light plans and agree with our proposals for a roundabout. See the two photos of these plans. Our plans should hopefully be going in by mid-June and comments have to be made by 26 June. I’ve included a photo of the original junction in the 19th century: here you can see a small roundabout. Strange how things come back round again!

David Isgrove

Chair of Moseley Forum

WMRE plans for Traffic Lights Junction for Station entrance