Kinetic are working on a master plan for Warwick Bar, Eastside.
http://www.kinetic-aiu.com/warwick.html
Looks exciting!

There is an Eastside Community Group. Next meeting is at the old crown pub on the 20th feb 6pm. I have just spoken to Anne Parouty (Chair) who informs me that they have no web presence but have been keen to develop one. I will be attending the next meeting to see if we can get a blog set up to assist them in communicating their discussions, findings and views.

http://eastsideblog.wordpress.com/

Second “Curzon Gate” should read “Curzon Park”.

Of interest, you can find out more that’s going on at:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=336

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=522514

I’d love to start an Eastside blog, as I work there every day.

The photo you posted is Digbeth Highstreet. You may be interested in this:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=560908

Millennium Point – finished in 2001 and now fully occupied.

Masshouse, phase two is underway, is at a snails pace though.

City Park – BCC have scaled it down after not winning the Lottery money. It is still going ahead, just at a slower pace.

City Park Gate – Full planning consent, building work is imminent.

Etna House – Under construction, steel is current going up.

VTP 200 – Has outline planning, awaiting full planning after a slight re-design after public consultation. New designs have been shown to the public now.

Curzon Gate – 700 apartments, due for completion by the summer.

Curzon Gate – outline planning given.

Birmingham city University – outline planing give. BIAD and Conservatoire are both moving to Eastside in the next 2010-2011. This is the same land where the Lord Rogers library was planned to be.

Venture East – land is being cleared as we speak. In for full planning in the next couple of months.

Multi-storey car park – Planning given.

You’re right in that there’s little public dialogue about Eastside yet there has been myriad strategies for it over the years. Even some very recent stuff that seems to have had little attention whatsoever. If I could pull my finger out and refocus on my strategy blog, I’d have a go at listing them all. Might take me a while though. You could start with the 2002 Eastside Sustainability Vision but there are plenty of others.

Having worked (and run and driven) around the place for a couple of years now it’s clear that what was incremental change in the first half of the decade has suddenly speeded up, particulary in the ‘upper’ part north of the railway line.

Given that the Lower Eastside Dialogues guys still have a web presence of sorts I wonder if they’d let someone use their space to continue the dialogue and start a blog?

Dave