Birmingham prepares for Pope’s visit
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Jul 2010, 9.07 AM by glen
Birmingham Resilience Team are busy working with partners to ensure a safe and successful visit by Pope Benedict XVI in the city’s Cofton Park on 19th September.
Cofton Park, Birmingham
The team is helping co-ordinate Birmingham City Council’s planning for the event, which will attract 65,000 pilgrims to a special mass and the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman. They are working with Government and the Catholic Church on the arrangements for the visit.
Further information will be released on our special Papal visit page
Comments
1. Will any part of Cofton Park be closed to the public on 21 August? If so, which?
2. Which city roads will be closed for the Pope’s visit and on which days?
Many thanks.
Hi, there will no closures of Cofton Park in relation to the Papal mass on 21st August. Work starts in the park on 26th August.
There will be some road closures and these will be announced very soon once they are confirmed.
whot part of the Hagley Rd will be closed & and at whot time, and how long for.
Hi, the Hagley Road will be closed outbound from 8am till approximately 3pm from Five Ways to Portland Road. The inbound side will remain open until the period of time when the Popemobile travels down the road which will be from 12:30 onwards. You can view the information at http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/papalvisit or call the resident’s enquiry line on 0121 675 1164
as a Worcestershire resident in Rubery we have been sent nothing by Birmingham city council looking at the maps we will be stopped from shopping in Rubery Village…again in Worcestershire is this the case?