Selly Oak constituency shown within Birmingham

Selly Oak is an area in south Birmingham, England. It is also a formal district, managed by its own district committee.

Birmingham Selly Oak is a constituency, its member of Parliament is Dr Lynne Jones.

Population & Services

Selly Oak is the principle area of private housing for students at the University of Birmingham, with over 1500 houses occupied. Because of its student orientation, there are a multitude of pubs, fast-food restaurants and the second highest concentration of curry houses in Birmingham outside of Moseley.

Selly Oak was blighted for a large part of the Twentieth Century by a road-widening scheme for the Bristol Road (A38). In the latter half of that century, many historic buildings were demolished, leaving a degraded urban environment.

External links

• Birmingham City Council's Selly Oak pages
• Photographs of Selly Oak
• A brief History of Selly Oak