Proposals to create an urban farm on the top two levels of a multi-storey car park in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter are being recommended for approval by city planning officers.

Urban Design Hub’s scheme for Vyse Street Car Park would deliver glasshouses for vegetable-growing, traditional growing beds, bee-keeping facilities, events space and a biodiversity centre with a kitchen and café on part of the car park’s fifth and sixth levels.

The first phase of the Vyse Street Food Project would cover around 950sq m of the northern end of the car park and would also include three wind turbines and photovoltaic panels.

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