Longbridge

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Not to be confused with Longridge.
For other uses, see Longbridge (disambiguation).

Longbridge
Longbridge Technology Park - Innovation Centre.jpg
Longbridge Technology Park – Innovation Centre (March 2010)
Longbridge is located in West Midlands county
Longbridge
Longbridge
Location within the West Midlands
Population25,410 (2011 Ward)[1]
• Density36.2 per ha
OS grid referenceSP015775
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBIRMINGHAM
Postcode districtB31, B45
Dialling code0121
PoliceWest Midlands
FireWest Midlands
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
West Midlands
52°23′42″N 1°58′44″W / 52.395°N 1.979°W / 52.395; -1.979Coordinates: 52°23′42″N 1°58′44″W / 52.395°N 1.979°W / 52.395; -1.979

Longbridge is an area of Northfield, West Midlands. It is located near the border of Worcestershire in the south-west of Birmingham, England.

Public Transport[]

Longbridge is described as a hub for public transport with a number of bus services run by Kev’s Coaches and National Express West Midlands passing through it with destinations including Birmingham City Centre, West Bromwich and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Edgbaston. West Midlands Railway serves the Cross City Line with destinations at Redditch or Bromsgrove and Four Oaks or Lichfield with connections to Hereford and Nottingham at University station or nationwide at Birmingham New Street station. In 2020 a large multi-storey carpark was built near Longbridge station as a park and ride facility to reduce car journeys into the city centre. Some improvements to Longbridge station were also carried out in 2020 though one side of the station remains without a lift facility.

Situation[]

Longbridge is surrounded by Frankley, , Rubery, Rednal, Bromsgrove, Northfield, West Heath and Kings Norton. Longbridge is in close proximity to and can be viewed from the Lickey Hills.

Longbridge plant[]

Main article: Longbridge plant

Since 1906, the area has been dominated by the Longbridge plant, which produced Austin, Nash Metropolitan, Morris, British Leyland, and most recently MG Rover cars. The factory became dormant, and some parts of the older sections of the site were demolished after MG Rover fell into administration in April 2005. The plant was one of the main employers of the local population and the resultant layoffs caused local decline. The company, renamed MG Motor (owned by MG Rover's would-be partner Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation) resumed limited MG TF sports car production within a small portion of the factory in August 2008 and in late 2010 started final assembly of the MG6. Production ceased completely in 2017, when the Chinese car maker decided to ship the fully assembled cars to the UK. The remaining disused sections of the factory were demolished on 4 August 2006.

Regeneration[]

25,410 people live in Longbrige

Gary Sambrook of the Conservative Party is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Northfield, representing the seat since the December 2019 general election.

As part of the Ward of Longbridge And West Heath, Longbridge is represented on Birmingham City Council by Debbie Clancy (Conservative Party) and Brett O'Reilly (Labour Party) who was very narrowly elected at the 2018 Birmingham City Council election.

Population[]

The 2001 Population Census recorded that there were 30,964 people living in Longbridge with a population density of 3,789 people per km² compared with 3,649 people per km² for Birmingham. Longbridge has a small ethnic minority population: only 6.8% (2,117) of the ward's population consists of ethnic minorities, unlike more centralised areas such as Aston, Handsworth and Small Heath.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Birmingham Ward population 2011". Retrieved 14 December 2015.

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