The Commons Transport Committee has criticised the AWM-sponsored redevelopment of Birmingham New Street station saying that it is not convinced that the redeveloped station will be adequate for expected future use.
No matter how much money is spent on New Street Station, there is no realistic way of expanding the station any further because there is […]
BBC’s Midlands Today programme have given Advantage West Midlands a well-deserved slating today over its £6m new offices for West Midlands Business Link.
Local businesses are struggling with the credit crunch, the onset of a global recession and the continual decline of the manufacturing industry upon which the economy of the West Midlands connurbation has traditionally […]
John Edwards, the former unelected Chief Executive of the unelected Regional Development Agency, Advantage West Midlands, is being given a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the rural economy.
Edwards presided over Birmingham-centric AWM for many years and as anyone who lives outside of “Greater Birmingham” will know, AWM cares very little for […]
Advantage West Midlands, the unelected regional development agency, has been leasing the site of the former BBC Pebble Mill studios in Edgbaston since the BBC moved out in 2004.
The studios have been demolished and the site is nothing more than a patch of bare earth. AWM wants to turn the site into a medical research […]
The Birmingham Post is claiming that a Tory plan to strip Regional Development Agencies of some of their powers will damage the economy of the West Midlands and centralise decision making.
This is absolute nonsense. Removing the regional quangocracy will empower local communities, increase democratic accountability in the decision-making process and could provide a […]
Advantage West Midlands (AWM), the unelected Regional Development Agency for the West Midlands euroregion, has signed a £100,000 sponsorship deal with Worcestershire County Cricket Club using taxpayers money.
Their reason for spending taxpayers money intended for regeneration and attracting investment into the West Midlands on sponsoring a cricket club is that it will promote Worcestershire and […]
Our friends at West Midlands Taxpayers Alliance have spotted a welcome step in the right direction with regard to the unelected regional development agency, Advantage West Midlands (AWM).
According to the Birmingham Post, AWM is to have its budget overseen by elected local authorities instead of by the equally unelected and unaccountable West Midlands Regional Assembly […]
Advantage West Midlands, the unelected Regional Development Agency, has launched an appeal against the registration of former railway land in Oswestry as a village green.
An inquiry held in October 2005 found that the land had been used for leisure purposes as of right for over 20 years so local residents registered it as a village […]
Barrie Williams, Chairman of the West Midlands Business Council, has called on public agencies to follow Advantage West Midlands’ example and work together to help people into jobs.
PUBLIC agencies need to work more closely together to create new jobs, according to the West Midlands Business Council.
Chairman Barrie Williams said: “Advantage West Midlands has worked well […]
Advantage West Midlands (AWM) is advertising another non-job, paid for by the taxpayer as usual.
West Midlands Regional Observatory
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Powering the transformation of the West Midlands, the Regional Observatory gives policy makers the data and intelligence they need to drive far-reaching change. Backed by Advantage West Midlands, this organisation […]
