High Court rejects legal bid to save brutalist Ringway Centre
Smallbrook Ringway, in 1965
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CAMPAIGNERS dedicated to preserving Birmingham’s Ringway Centre pledged to continue their efforts to protect the brutalist landmark today.
The High Court refused the group’s bid for a judicial review of plans for the site, which would see the 1960s building bulldozed to make way for three high-rises.
It followed a previous rejection on the matter by the court in June.
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