Birmingham-based practice Urban Design Hub has created proposals to transform the top two levels of a multi-storey car park in the city’s Jewellery Quarter into an urban farm and community garden.

The scheme, created for campaign group Slow Food UK, would reconfigure part of the fifth and sixth levels of Vyse Street Car Park with glasshouses, a biodiversity centre and wind turbines.

Documents produced by Urban Design Hub to support the application cite the growth of inner-city food-growing projects and the wider repurposing of multi-storey car parks. They referenced Carl Turner Architects’ Peckham Levels project in south-east London, the La Caverne mushroom-growing project in Paris, and the Gotham Greens scheme in New York.

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