Hall Green

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Hall Green constituency shown within Birmingham.

Semi-detached houses in Hall Green.

Independent businesses in a shopping area of Hall Green.

Hall Green is an area and ward in south Birmingham, England. It is also a formal district, managed by its own district committee.

The area is served by Hall Green Library.

St John's Church in Sparkhill is the Anglican Church whose parish covers the northern part of this district.

1 Politics
2 Population and housing
3 Famous residents
4 Sources

[edit] Politics

Birmingham, Hall Green is a parliamentary constituency; its Member of Parliament is Stephen James McCabe. Hall Green ward is presently represented by three Liberal Democrat councillors on Birmingham City Council; Sandra O'Brien, Paula Smith and Michael Wilkes.

Hall Green has adopted a Ward Support Officer with the current holder of the title being Talbinder Kaur.

[edit] Population and housing

The 2001 Population Census found that there were 25,921 people living in Hall Green with a population density of 4,867 people per km², this compares with 3,649 people per square KM for Birmingham. Hall Green is below average, when compared to Birmingham in general, in the percentage of population represented by ethnic minorities with the figure for Hall Green being 25.4% (6,580) and the figure for Birmingham being 29.6%.

Housing is largely inter-war (mainly semi-detached) and pleasantly laid out with tree-lined roads and green spaces. There are still a good number of independent locally run shops.

There is a popular Greyhound racing stadium and race course situated on York Road called "Hall Green Stadium", though this is technically just across the border in neighbouring Acocks Green. The stadium has won the BGRB Midlands and Western Region Racecourse of the Year 2003 award for the 4th consecutive year.

Hall Green is also home to Moor Green F.C., but the future of the club is residency in the area is uncertain after an arson attack in 2005 on the Moorlands stadium.

[edit] Famous residents

Hall Green has been a home to comedian Tony Hancock, who lived at 41 Southam Road until the age of three (the house contains a plaque commemorating this), racing commentator Murray Walker, who was born at 214 Reddings Lane, Nigel Mansell, who though born in Upton-upon-Severn spent most of his childhood and early adult years in the area and most famously J. R. R. Tolkien, who lived near Sarehole Mill, Birmingham's only working water mill. Sarehole Mill is a tourist attraction, powered by the River Cole, that is open to visitors during the summer months and has several locations nearby that are supposedly the inspiration behind scenes in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The area of Hall Green was not developed at the time when Tolkien lived there (1896-1900).