Grimshaw’s HS2 Curzon Street station in Birmingham has been given planning permission by the city council, the first phase one station to be approved.

Three planning applications for the £570m station and the surrounding landscaping were approved by the council’s planning committee during a virtual meeting earlier today.

A council report recommending the scheme for approval said: “The elegant and (deceptively) simple form of the main station building clearly reads as a railway station and harks back to traditional station architecture, delivering this in a confident and contemporary way.”

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