Woodgate is an area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England, between Bartley Green and Harborne.

Revised plans disclosed by Birmingham Council's Public Works Committee in 1968 show new housing for 20,000 people (17,000 in council-built and 3,000 in private-built homes), double the original number put forward two years earlier.

The plans also show a proposed Woodgate/Edgbaston Expressway road from the M5 junction 3 routed along the southern part of Woodgate Valley, and a boating lake north of Hillcrest School, Birmingham, known then as Bartley Green Grammar School.

[1] At a public meeting held at Four Dwellings School in April 1968 the chairman of the Public Works Committee explained the housing scheme was essential to help eradicate Birmingham's remaining slums.

Following a public inquiry into the proposed expressway a new route north of the valley was mooted.