Birmingham City Council has approved Darling Associates’ proposals for 550 new homes at the south-east edge of the city’s Digbeth creative district.

The practice’s scheme, for build-to-rent specialist Goodstone Living, will deliver the homes in six blocks, ranging in height from three to 26 stories.

Coucillors on Birmingham’s planning committee had previously refused a 480-home incarnation of the proposals on the grounds of its potential lmpact on plans to reopen rail services on the nearby Camp Hill line. Then-housing secretary Robert Jenrick overruled the objection last year following an appeal.

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