Urban renewal post 1990, note use of crude PVC windows, compare to above.

Urban renewal has been extensively carried out within Birmingham these past few decades.

URBAN RENEWAL OR RUINATION?

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House on left 'renewed', house on right  awaiting its fate, all it requires is a lick of paint?

Recent schemes have involved 100% grants. These are examples of insensitive urban renewal carried out by Birmingham council during the 1990's.

Durham Rd, Sparkhill, Birmingham

Original alleyway yet to be replaced

Alleyway renewed, crude brick and concrete

Door detail from below

Repairable original walls and posts, compare to their new crude neighbours

These fine houses have now had their fine windows replaced by crude PVC.

Elaborate door surrounds now replaced, Stratford Rd, Sparkbrook

Original panelled doors and stone steps and tiles soon to be replaced

In spite of the Councils Agenda 21 waffle, the once intact Victorian Sparkhill, is continuing to decline with the most crude replacement windows - Photo Dec 2001