Councillors block 700-home Glancy Nicholls scheme
By Jim Dunton2023-08-21T16:00:00
Loss of old industrial buildings and lack of larger family apartments fuels rejection of plans for Birmingham’s Digbeth area
Members of Birmingham City Council’s Planning Committee have flown in the face of officers’ recommendations and refused to back proposals for a 711-home city-centre development designed by Glancy Nicholls Architects.
The practice’s Pressworks scheme for Prosperity Developments would have delivered the new homes and 2,099sq m of new commercial space on a 1.2ha site in Digbeth that forms part of the wider Smithfield Masterplan area.
But at a meeting last week councillors criticised the lack of larger family homes in the proposals, the quantity of affordable housing – 10% rather than the city’s target of 35%, and the loss of several industrial buildings on the site.
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