Residents share insights into life in Perry Barr

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Perry Barr, home to notable landmarks like the One Stop Shopping Centre and Perry Park, offers a mix of urban convenience and green spaces. Today, we'll listen to residents sharing their thoughts on what makes Perry Barr special, as well as the challenges they face.

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00:00Basically, Perry Bar is alright for shopping, to get your local bits, to get what you need.

00:04It's busy because they took off the bridge not long ago.

00:08It's mega busy around here, no matter what time in the day you come in to do shopping,

00:11it's busy.

00:12And, you know, there's not much places for people to go and people to do to spare your

00:16time.

00:17You know what I mean?

00:18So, it's a hard one.

00:19I think Perry Bar is a lovely area to live in, just, it's a bit, it's a bit scary at

00:25night though, because, like, I've heard a lot of rumours about people getting robbed

00:30and all sorts of things, but in a general whole, it is a lovely place to live in.

00:35There's a lot of different range of people, atmospheres, in, like, the pubs, in restaurants.

00:43It's a nice place to live in, it's, I do enjoy living here.

00:47Yeah, sure, Perry Bar is, you know, it's a brilliant area in the sense that we've seen

00:54so many interesting things change over the last five years.

00:57So much money has been invested in Perry Bar since the Commonwealth Games.

01:01It has become like Edgbaston.

01:03About eight years ago, I said to friends and family, of course, I didn't have the money

01:06to invest in property, but if you want to invest, invest in Perry Bar.

01:12Invest in Perry Bar, because it's going to be like Edgbaston, and now it is like Edgbaston,

01:16and everybody seems to have disappeared.

01:18That's what I like about Perry Bar, it is now on par with that, only the buildings behind

01:23me right now, they're just sat, it'd be interesting to see what happens with these, I imagine

01:28they're going to be up for sale over the next few years, who knows.

01:30It's been built up because of the Commonwealth, they've renewed and built a lot of, you know,

01:37properties and what they promised was going to happen with those properties, that hasn't

01:44happened.

01:46You've got homeless people on the streets, and you've got young families who've got nowhere

01:54to live, they're in hotels, what's going on?

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