How your councillors invested in road safety in 2022-2023

Filed under: FOI

In Birmingham, every councillor has a budget of £10,000 per year to make minor improvements to road safety in their ward.

Councillors now also get £20,000 per year to spend on clean air measures through the Brum Breathes Fund. They have to add measures to their ward plan through a ward forum.

These funds will continue despite the Council’s financial pressures.

We submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to find out what has been done since councillors were elected.

What did your councillor(s) spend your ward’s money on?

2022 to 2023 financial year

• Acocks Green – Carried forward for larger scheme (£20,000)
• Allens Cross – One speed sign Meadow Brook Road, road markings and bollards at various locations (£10,000)
• Alum Rock – Hazelbeach Road One Way system. (£20,000)
• Aston – Malthouse Croft yellow lines and Minor Works (£20,000)
• Balsall Heath West – Carried forward for larger scheme (£10,000)
• Bartley Green – Double kerbing Field Lane (£20,000)
• Billesley – Zebra Crossing, Hollybank Road (£20,000)
• Birchfield – Hutton Road bollards (£10,000)
• Bordesley & Highgate – Yellow lines on Salop St/Darwin St (£10,000)
• Bordesley Green – Yellow lines on Whitore Rd, Jenkins St/Camelot Way and Fourth Ave. Bollard on Millward St, Street name plate on Newland Rd (£10,000)
• Bournbrook & Selly Park – Yellow lines and road markings, Bornebrook Road (£20,000)
• Bournville & Cotteridge – VASs on Bristol Road & Bournville Lane (£20,000)
• Brandwood & Kings Heath – Yellow lines along Vicarage Road, Alcester Road South, Brandwood Road and Avenue Road (£20,000)
• Bromford & Hodge Hill – Bollards / trip railing & double kerbing at various locations across ward (£20,000)
• Castle Vale – Renfrew Square Guardrail, Park Lane bollards (£10,000)
• Druids Heath & Monyhull – Bollards and dropped kerbs (£10,000)
• Edgbaston – Sir Harrys Road yellow lines (£20,000)
• Erdington – Sycamore Road mini-roundabout removal, signs or markings at Beeches/Sycamore, bollards on Holly Lane, Church Road give-ways, Malcolm Avenue bollards (£20,000)
• Four Oaks – Little Sutton Lane & Jervis Crescent yellow line restrictions (£10,000)
• Frankley Great Park – Carried forward for larger scheme (£10,000)
• Garrets Green – Grass verge protection measures Church Rd and Garretts Green Lane (£10,000)
• Glebe Farm & Tile Cross – Pedestrian crossings at various junctions on Stud Lane, Gossey Lane & Cole Hall Road plus guard railing on Gossey Lane (£20,000)
• Gravelly Hill – Wheelwright Road yellow lines, give-way markings and enhanced school signs (£10,000)
• Hall Green North – Carried forward for larger scheme (£20,000)
• Hall Green South – Double kerbing kedleston Road & Barton lodge Road (£10,000)
• Handsworth – Bollards/guard rail – Antrobus Road at Rookery Road (£10,000)
• Handsworth Wood – Handsworth Wood Road yellow lines, Crossroads Warning signs (£20,000)
• Harborne – Carried forward for larger scheme (£20,000)
• Heartlands – Heartlands Hospital Footway Protection. (£10,000)
• Highter’s Heath – 2 speed signs Maypole Lane (£10,000)
• Holyhead – Bollards/guard rail – Clarence Road at Holyhead Road (£10,000)
• Kings Norton North – Parking restrictions, dropped kerbs, guardrail and road markings (£10,000)
• Kings Norton South – Bollards, guardrail and junction markings (£10,000)
• Kingstanding – Twickenham Rd Guardrail, Idbuty Road give-ways, Pedestrian dropped kerbs (£20,000)
• Ladywood – Traffic Speed cushions, Osler Street (£20,000)
• Longbridge & West Heath – Double Yellow Lines and footway crossing points (£20,000)
• Lozells – Incorporated into Low Traffic scheme (£10,000)
• Mere Green – St James Road & Drayton Close yellow line restrictions Hillwood Common Road Warning Signs (£10,000)
• Moseley – Double kerbing Green Road, pedestrain refuge Wake Green Road & pedestrian crossings at various locations (£20,000)
• Nechells – Yellow lines on Nechells Beales St/Heanor Croft and dropped crossings on Francis Street and Cattells Grove (£10,000)
• Newtown – One Speed sign Great King St North & Bollards (£1,000)
• North Edgbaston – Carried forward for larger scheme (£20,000)
• Northfield – Carried forward for larger scheme (£10,000)
• Oscott – Double Kerbing – Old Oscott Hill (£20,000)
• Perry Barr – Rocky Lane yellow lines and Pedestrian Refuge (£20,000)
• Perry Common – Maxted Road lane markings, Old Beeches Keep Clears, Dropped kerbs, Streetly Road guardrail (£10,000)
• Pype Hayes – Varley Vale bollards, Tyburn Road bollards, dropped kerbs – Colston Road and Sumerlee Road (£10,000)
• Quinton – One speed sign and Construction of footways, Wolverhampton Rd South, Overdale and Woodhuse Rd yellow lines (£20,000)
• Reddicap – Reddicap Heath Road Verge protection, Walmley Road warning signs and markings, Chadwick Road bollards (£10,000)
• Roughley – Tamworth Rd Warning signs, Lindridge Road signs and markings, speed survey (£10,000)
• Rubery & Rednal – Double Yellow Lines at various locations (£10,000)
• Shard End – Parking bays Feasley Road (£10,000)
• Sheldon – Moat Lane pedestrian crossings & bollards (£20,000)
• Small Heath – 2 x speed signs in Heybarnes Road and a footway protection scheme on the corner of Coventry Road and Malmsbury Road (£20,000)
• Soho & Jewellery Quarter – 2 Sets of traffic speed cshions in Willes Road, bollards and dropped kerbs at various locations (£20,000)
• South Yardley – Traffic calming measures, Broadyates Road (£10,000)
• Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East – Bollards & railings on Clifton Road / Ombersley Road / St Pauls Road / Runcorn Road (£20,000)
• Sparkhill – Bollards at various locations on Stratford Road / Percy Road / Showell Green Lane etc. (£20,000)
• Stirchley – Yellow lines at various locations (£10,000)
• Stockland Green – Reservoir Road, Slade Road & South Road yellow lines, Marsh Lane bollards, Farley Road etc Dropped Kerbs (£20,000)
• Trinity – Beeches Walk Verge Protection Measures (with additional funding from the Town Council for enhanced measures) (£10,000)
• Tyseley & Hay Mills – Grass verge protection measures Hob Moor Road (£10,000)
• Vesey – Monmouth Drive 30mph speed limit, Antrobus Road refuge, chevron signs and speed surveys (£20,000)
• Walmley and Minworth – Fox Hollies Rd Bunding, Old Kingsbury Road Guardrail, Berryfield Road dropped kerbs, Walmley Ash Road dropped kerbs (£20,000)
• Ward End – Footway Protection on Washwood Heath Road and Mickleover Road (£10,000)
• Weoley & Selly Oak – 1 speed sign Bristol Road, double yellow lines and guardrail Witherford Way (£20,000)
• Wylde Green – Birmingham Road additional bollards, Harman/Holifast speed surveys, St Bernards Road Pedestrian dropped kerbs, Monkseaton Road dropped kerbs, Wylde Green Road dropped kerbs (£10,000)
• Yardley East – Traffic calming measures, Queens Road (£10,000)
• Yardley West & Stechford – Traffic calming measures, Homelea Road (£10,000)

2023 to 2024 year so far

• Bartley Green – Double Kerbing, Kitwell Lane and bollards Adams Hill (£20,000)
• Billesley – Yellow lines Slade Lane and Yardley Wood Road (£20,000)
• Birchfield – Bollards/ Guard Rail – Hamstead Road (£10,000)
• Bournville & Cotteridge – Double kerbing Bunbury Road, double yellow lines in Mary vale Road, Birch Close and Longwood (£20,000)
• Brandwood & Kings Heath – Pedestrian refuges, Brandwood & Grove Road (£20,000)
• Castle Vale – Speed surveys (£600)
• Erdington – Speed surveys (£500)
• Four Oaks – Speed surveys (£200)
• Handsworth – Bollards/ Guard Rail – Grove Lane (£10,000)
• Highter’s Heath – Double yellow lines, Maypole Grove (£10,000)
• Kingstanding – Dulwish Road footway protection, Kingstanding Road bollards, Warren Hill Road bollards, Epwell Road give-way markings (£8,000)
• Longbridge & West Heath – Double kerbing on Grovely Lane and bollards in Fairfax Road (£20,000)
• North Edgbaston – Traffic Speed cushions, Fountain Road (£40,000)
• Perry Common – Speed survey (£200)
• Reddicap – Reddicap Heath Road speed surveys, Reddicap Heath Road verge protection, Duncumb Road bollards (£10,000)
• Roughley – Weeford Road footway (£6,000)
• Rubery & Rednal – Speed sign – Leach Green Lane, Guard Rail in Farmdale Grove and bollards Knowles Close (£10,000)
• Stirchley – Pedestrian Refuge Cartland Road (No cost given)
• Stockland Green – Speed surveys (£200)
• Vesey – Speed surveys (£200)

Better Streets for Birmingham

Better Streets for Birmingham is a community group which campaigns for changes to our travel and planning infrastructure to improve the sustainability, efficiency and safety of our streets. We believe that through connecting Birmingham to reduce car dependency, we will make it a more pleasant place to work, live and play.