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And no mention of chavs? This was a featured chav town on http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/ 86.140.139.252 14:00, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
People have been changing the location of Chelmsley Wood back and forth between Birmingham and Solihull. I know next to nothing about the place, but I can read maps. Administratively, Chelmsley Wood is part of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, as this Ordnance Survey map and this map on the borough website shows. Claiming otherwise is either a misunderstanding or deliberate vandalism. However, the Office for National Statistics counts Chelmsley Wood as a part of the settlement of Birmingham rather than Solihull, as evidenced by this map (both settlements are part of the West Midlands urban area). So it's probably not completely wrong to say that Chelmsley Wood is in Birmingham as well, but one has to be clear what sense of Birmingham is meant, i.e. not the City of Birmingham as an administrative unit. I don't really know how to put that into a compact opening sentence, but maybe someone else does? //Essin (talk) 22:05, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
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The population is listed as 12,425. This number is due to the local reorganisations, the political Balkanisation, if you will, of the original Chelmsley Wood. This comprised a town of about 70,000 people, and it was for many tears the largest housing estate in Europe. Despite the renaming of parts of the estate, the inhabitants regard themselves as being of Chelmsley Wood in it's original and larger sense.
I wish also to clarify the misapprehension of crime and violence on Chelmsley; it stems from the lack of knowledge by outsiders of the scale of the place; therefore, when crime figures appropriate to a town of 70,000 have been reported, the mental picture was of them relating to a smaller population entirely, resulting in the view of Chelmsley as somewhere that eats babies and massed ommunal nocturnal burglary. Without whitewashing the criminals we do suffer from, the correct factual viewpoint would be welcomed. Maxx England (talk) 21:58, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
No way has the population of Chelmsley Wood ever been close to 70,000, even allowing for the border changes and the invention of the name "Fordbridge" to call the west of the estate. Just to clarify and correct a common misconception, it's also never been the biggest estate in the UK, that honour goes to Becontree in Dagenham. {Huddsblue (talk) 05:04, 25 December 2015 (UTC)}
There were some nice references out there. Does anyone have details of the area numbers to which Hanley refers? I have added some and expanded the history- what we need now is someone to take some photos of typical houses, and walkways- the interior of the shopping centre etc. Wait for spring probably. -- Clem Rutter (talk) 19:56, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
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"On 21 December 1964, Richard Crossman the new minister for housing sent a letter to Sir Frank Price, leader of Birmingham City Council proposing the scheme"
Price was never the leader of the council. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.181.67.187 (talk) 21:47, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
As my permission levels aren't high enough, please could someone change reference 5 for me? The link should be https://www.solihull.gov.uk/About-Solihull/Chelmsley-Wood-history - the old one was for the old website Gary, Solihull Libraries GGA2022 (talk) 09:34, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
Can someone add Troy Deeney please as being from Chelmsley Wood. Thank you 2A00:23C6:7142:A01:C840:8959:93F:EEF4 (talk) 14:45, 23 August 2024 (UTC)