Plans lodged to demolish former Birmingham police station for new homes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nThe council is planning to introduce a \u2018negotiated stopping\u2019 pilot which would see unused pieces of land in the city used by travellers for \u201cshort term stays\u201d.<\/p>\n
But the authority previously pushed the start date back from June to October.<\/p>\n
A recent council report said the consultation with communities and businesses near the proposed stopping sites was due to take place in August and September.<\/p>\n
Amid frustration from councillors over the \u201clittle progress\u201d being made, a council officer blamed the delay on \u2018site identification and resourcing\u2019 issues at a meeting during the summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been working very hard on identifying sites and getting a shortlist up for the potential consultation,\u201d she said. \u201cBut due to the criteria for the sites, that is proving quite difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the possible sites, a council report published ahead of the meeting said: \u201cAn initial shortlist has been drawn up by officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is being considered jointly by planning, housing and property colleagues before wider consultation can take place on a finalised shortlist.\u201d<\/p>\n
The council has in the past pledged to take \u201ceveryone\u2019s views into consideration\u201d over the pilot scheme, which is set to last for at least 12 months, and said it was also focusing on \u201ccommunity cohesion\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City Council has acknowledged the disruption and financial costs that unauthorised encampments cause 12:02, 02 Sep 2025Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,984,748,393,728,4884,528,285,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-391799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-council","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-labour-party","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115134530177591205","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Travellers move onto Cofton Park in Birmingham(Image: Nick Wilkinson\/Birmingham Live)<\/p>\n![\"Birmingham](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_JS323277289.jpg\")
Birmingham City Council House(Image: Nick Wilkinson\/Birmingham Live)<\/p>\n