Glenn Howells Architects is giving a public airing to proposals to transform a 4ha chunk of Birmingham’s Digbeth district with a scheme that includes the delivery of a new base for the BBC in the city.

The corporation announced last month that it would move out of its home of nearly two decades in the city centre – Associated Architects’ Mailbox development – for a new HQ at the former Typhoo Tea Factory in Digbeth in 2026.

The BBC moved its Birmingham operations to the Mailbox – a repurposed Post Office building close to the city’s Gas Street basin – in 2004, freeing up its John Madin-designed former Pebble Mill Studios in Edgbaston for redevelopment.

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