[1] Today Birmingham City Council maintains the island as a recreation area with benches trees and mown grass.

Round the recreation area are a health centre, shops selling economically priced goods and a market.

[1] The area takes its name from the ruins of a moated and fortified manor house, now owned by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.

Mitchells and Butlers were given permission in 1933 to transfer the licence from the Swan with Two Necks, Aston Street, Birmingham (which was scheduled for demolition for a new fire station) to a new Weoley Castle public house to be built at the corner of Somerford Road and Shenley Lane..[7] A Congregational Church was designed by Birmingham architects Harrison and Tracey and built on Castle Square in 1936.

It includes a local history section,[13] a Pre-school playgroup, drop in advice from Age UK and councillors' surgeries.

Weoley Castle Walkway is an area of recreation ground that is located mainly within Selly Oak and Quinton.

[17] On 23 October 1933 the 40,000th council house in Birmingham was officially opened at 30 Hopstone Road by the later Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.