Three new ‘legacy sites’ providing major development opportunities over the next decade

Plans for a new £40m ICT village at Birmingham Science Park in Aston

 A new university campus for University College Birmingham to be built on four acres adjoining the city’s historic Jewellery Quarter

Site owner East End Foods is to announce plans for a “landmark hotel” and further warehousing on the HP Sauce site

Hilton Hotel Group will confirm it wants two more sites in Birmingham

Encourage the High Speed 2 rail line for the city which will drastically reduce travelling times from London to Birmingham to 49 minutes by 2018

Open up freight lines across Birmingham to passenger trains, creating "new" cross city transportation by 2018

Birmingham International Airport's long awaited runway extension project gets funding

ASDA is to spend £100m in Birmingham over the next 10 years, creating 2,000 jobs.