Plan will deliver 240 new homes
Proposals to turn a brownfield site close to the new HS2 station at Curzon Street in Birmingham into a mixed-use scheme have been given the green light by local planners.
Under the £100m proposal, a 1.1ha former ironworks site in the Digbeth area of the city will be turned into a 240-home housing scheme by site owner, car dealer and property developer Hartwell.
Hartwell wants to build media, educational and commercial space as well as retail across a plot running to 17,500sq m.
Architect AHMM has drawn up the plans, called Phoenix Yard, which will be built close to the emerging HS2 station at Curzon Street, being built by a Mace/Dragados joint venture, with Birmingham city council looking to invest more than £700m over the next three decades to redevelop the area around the station under its Curzon Investment Plan.
Joanne Churchill, group property manager at Hartwell, said: “This is a major milestone for Hartwell and a significant step for Digbeth. We received such positive feedback on our plans from not only stakeholders and businesses but also the local community. We look forward to working closely with the council, local partners and the community as we move into the next phase.”
According to the plans submitted to the city council earlier this year, the scheme will include four new buildings and a retained building called Smithfield Garage which Hartwell owns.
In May, the city council published a new investment prospectus for Digbeth, setting out proposals for 6,652 homes and 310,527sq m of commercial space across 10 sites.
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