Digbeth area of city becoming building hotspot triggered by arrival of new railway
AHMM’s 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 site in the Digbeth area of the city will be turned into a media, office and housing scheme by site owner, car dealer Hartwell.
Hartwell wants to build media, educational and commercial space, plus 240 new homes as well as retail across a plot running to 17,500sq m.
Called Phoenix Yard, the scheme 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.
Others working on the project include planning consultant Newmark, project manager Ridge, structures specialist Cundall and M&E engineer Hoare Lea.
Other schemes springing up in the area include a new BBC headquarters at the former Typhoo building which has been designed by Howells and is being built by Bam.
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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