Birmingham approves medical block for Madin's Pebble Mill site

Illustrative design for the new Pebble Mill medical building

Source: David Lock Associates

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Members of Birmingham council’s planning committee have given their backing to the construction of a 9,000sq m medical facility on part of the former BBC Pebble Mill Studios site.

The studios, in part of the leafy Edgbaston suburb, were designed by John Madin and completed in 1971 – only to be demolished 34 years later after the broadcaster relocated to a city-centre base in the Mailbox building.

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