Projects: Urban Greening

The West Bromwich Urban Greening project has planned to deliver a number of initiatives over a 5-year programme, to enhance the existing greenspace and improve the appearance of West Bromwich Town Centre.  This will include the introduction of new trees, parklets and play space, complementing planned infrastructure works to establish better links from the Town Centre to Sandwell Valley.

A Cultural Programme delivered by Multistory will also be delivered alongside the capital development works, including community involvement and artistic interpretation to help improve the physical and mental wellbeing of people. 

The project Full Business Case was approved by Government in March 2022. The project team have since undertaken a number of activities in the background to finalise the work packages to deliver this project. On-site works commenced in August 2022 for Phase 1 and completed in December 2022. The second phase of the project commenced in March 2023 and completed in August 2023. The project continues to deliver the Cultural Programme with a number activities already taken place. You can find out more here.

Check Out the West Bromwich High Street Digital Map

Multistory are excited to share a new digital commission by artist and poet, Lee Mackenzie. ‘West Bromwich High Street’ is an illustrated poetry map and musical score of West Bromwich that connects the High Street to green spaces, as part of Multistory’s urban greening cultural programme, Green Roots. The map contains drawings of many of the area’s well-known buildings and the sounds of the high street as represented in musical notations.

View the West Bromwich High Street Digital Map by Lee Mackenzie