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» For the Parliamentary constituency, see Birmingham Ladywood (UK Parliament constituency).
Ladywood is an inner-city area in
Birmingham,
England. It is also a
council constituency, managed by its own
district committee. The constituency includes the smaller Ladywood
ward and the wards of
Aston,
Nechells and
Soho. The Ladywood ward and constituency both include
Birmingham City Centre.
From the late 1990s, developers have constructed apartment residences alongside the canals.
The area is served by two libraries;
Spring Hill Library and
Ladywood Library
.
Demography
At the time of the
2001 Population Census, 23,789 people were living in Ladywood with a population density of 3,330 people per km² compared with 3,649 people per km² for Birmingham. Nearly half of the population of Ladywood consists of ethnic minorities. 49% of the ward's population consists of ethnic minorities compared with 29.6% for Birmingham in general. With the largest ethnic minorities being Afro-Caribbean at 13.18%, Indian at 11.65%, Pakistani at 10.64% and Mixed Race at 5.52%.
The Ladywood ward combines areas of very differing character, such that no generalisation is possible. There is the city centre (obviously the most economically valuable area in the whole city), the Jewellery Quarter and Broad Street areas which have become fashionable for "luxury apartment" living, the Park Central area which has been almost totally redeveloped, and there's the remainder of the ward (herein: "remainder Ladywood") which is relatively economically impoverished, but nevertheless with a strong community spirit.
Most of "remainder Ladywood" (and area now occupied by Park Central) was redeveloped during the 1960s, with decaying terraced slums being cleared to make way for new low-rise housing and high-rise flats. Although the newer homes were a big improvement on their predecessors in terms of quality and sanitation, the social and other problems of tower blocks resulted in much of the local area becoming plagued by drug dealing, anti-social behaviour and many of the other problems commonly associated with inner city areas across England.
More recently there has been investment in physical improvements to the area. Many tower blocks have been either demolished or improved, not least with introduction of concierge or
CCTV security systems. These and other such measures have resulted in a reduction of antisocial behaviour such that the notion that the area is unpleasant and dangerous to live in is now more a myth of the past than a reality of the present.
Ward
The ward is currently represented by three
Labour councillors at the
Birmingham City Council; Sir
Albert Bore, Kath Hartley and Carl Rice.
Ladywood Ward has adopted a Ward Support Officer with the current holder of the title being Sandra Lawrence.
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