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The Birmingham Central blog is currently going through the council’s Big City Plan and producing some very useful summaries of the notions contained therein. Part 3 is particularly of interest to us as it deals with the connectivity issues across the city centre and the various options for the quarters under development including Digbeth / Eastside where the Custard Factory resides.
it also has some nice diagrams. If you like diagrams.

via D’log
Part 5 might be most useful now as I’ve cited the Options from the end of the report with Digbeth having a set of 3 options.
http://birminghamcentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/big-city-plan-5-options.html
Start-up Digbeth
Business Digbeth
Living and Working Digbeth.
as they say, “several options can be combined. Sometimes they cannot - they will be of the “either/or”