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Birmingham City Laboratories and Conservation


I spent part of this morning reviewing the food laboratory in Garretts Green and looking at some conservation issues in Acocks Green.

Both are important issues. We are what we eat and the safety of that and certainty of safety are both important issues. The nature of the built environment is important to everyone. There was a rather sad Sunday demolition of a property last year - which was to avoid it being listed. A old property property on Yardley Road is being messed about without planning permission at the moment. The wheels of bureacracy grind slowly, but should be able to get there.

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