Corstophine & Wright Architects have drawn up proposals to replace a 1960s development that lines one of the remaining sections of Birmingham’s Inner Ring Road with three tower blocks, the tallest of which would be 56 storeys.

The scheme would deliver around 1,800 homes and replace the six-storey Ringway Centre on Smallbrook Queensway. It was designed by James Roberts, architect of the Rotunda – Birmingham’s most famous 1960s building.

Costorphine & Wright’s proposals, drawn up for Commercial Estates Group, also include retail and commercial uses at the lower levels of the blocks, the shorter two of which would be 44 storeys and 48 storeys respectively.

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