This speculative proposal uses HS2 as the impetus and generator to resolve local and regional environmental problems, rather than compounding them. It sets out a radical agenda to improve quality of life, environmental and educational facilities and economic potential for residents, visitors, students and employees.

HS2LV reinvents the region, imagining a future where the Tame, Rae and Blythe valleys will be home to award-winning exemplars of zero-carbon development, with highly productive landscapes with strong economic and cultural relationships between Birmingham, Solihull and Coventry. It reimagines the landscape as a destination for ecological tourism, culinary expertise, the learning of traditional crafts, green industries and innovative agriculture.

The project, like all our work, is underpinned by a topographical structure made evident to give a greater sense of identity, orientation and pride.