Downsized proposals for a ground-floor-plus-32-storeys build-to-rent residential tower in central Birmingham have been lodged by Howells.

Designs by the recently-rebranded practice, formerly known as Glenn Howells Architects, slash the height of a previously-consented scheme for 100 Broad Street by almost half.

Glancy Nicholls’ 61-storey scheme was designed for Euro Property Investments Ltd and approved in 2020. However, the 503-home scheme is understood to have become unviable and the site was sold to current owner Urban Vision.

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