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Historic streets in city centre repaved with patchy tarmac leaving residents fuming

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A tarmac patch on Colmore Row, next to the historic Council House & Town Hall on Victoria Square in Birmingham. May 19, 2026. // Residents have been left fuming after paving stones around a city's most historic streets were torn up and replaced with patches of unsightly black tarmac. Workers from National Grid undertook work near to Birmingham's 19th-century town hall, Birmingham City Council House and Colmore Row, which is itself home to 23 listed buildings. But shocking photos show how following the work, the upended slabs were not replaced and instead the holes were filled in with zig-zag lines of black tarmac. Brummies have been left seething at the "shoddy repatching job" which they say harms the character of the picturesque area and branded it a "shameful eyesore." Photo released 20/05/2026
The historic stones are now filled with ugly tarmac (Picture: SWNS)

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