Community and Culture – learnings from Covid and looking to the future in Birmingham Jun 2, 2021 Following on from their involvement at the Birmingham Future Development Plans Event, Woods Hardwick have shared their summary of the event… AS WE EMERGE OUT OF LOCKDOWN, TO SAY THAT BIRMINGHAM IS A HIVE OF DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY IS QUITE THE UNDERSTATEMENT! With HS2, plans for next year’s Commonwealth Games, the expansion of the Midland Metro, […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Carter Jonas awarded HS2 property management contract May 18, 2021 High Speed 2 Ltd (HS2) has appointed national property consultancy Carter Jonas to deliver asset management services across its wide range of property and land assets acquired for the development of the UK high speed rail network. Following a competitive tender via the CCS procurement framework, Carter Jonas is appointed on a five-year contract. The […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
HBD announces second major Birmingham city centre redevelopment Apr 22, 2021 Sheffield-based developers HBD today unveiled plans for a £100m mixed-use development on the site of a car dealership in Birmingham. Formerly Henry Boot, the company has acquired the 2.6-acre Sytner BMW dealership in the city’s Jewellery Quarter with the intention of creating a residential-led PRS redevelopment that could accommodate around 450 units. HBD has also […] Posted by: Mark Flanagan Read more
MAYORAL ELECTION IN FOCUS: West Midlands CA Apr 22, 2021 On May 6 a number of Combined Authority mayoral elections will be taking place and, as part of a special series of events, we invited all candidates to explain what their ambitions are in terms of regeneration moving forward? Below are the responses for the candidates in the West Midlands CA who took part Mayor […] Posted by: Mark Flanagan Read more
Second-time lucky for Birmingham’s tallest building Apr 15, 2021 Court Collaboration’s plan to build the tallest building in Birmingham has been given the go ahead, paving the way for several hundred new luxury apartments in the city centre. The proposals for the £225m build-to-rent development, which were originally approved in 2019, were resubmitted as a new application following further engagement with local stakeholders and […] Posted by: Mark Flanagan Read more
Midlands LEP reaches £500m match-funding milestone Apr 15, 2021 A funding project aimed at boosting the Greater Birmingham and Solihull area is on track to unlock £500m of match funding from an investment of £207.9m made over the last six years. The Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP) Local Growth Fund programme, which launched in 2015, has now committed all of its […] Posted by: Mark Flanagan Read more
St Modwen partners with Oxford college on Worcester masterplan Apr 6, 2021 St Modwen has formed a joint venture with Merton College (Oxford) on a mixed-use development which is set to create up to 1,250 homes and 900,000 sqft of logistics space on a 240-acre site near Worcester. Located just off junction 7 of the M5, it forms part of a draft allocation for up to 10,000 […] Posted by: Mark Flanagan Read more
West Midlands CA investment kickstarts eye-catching Digbeth project Mar 22, 2021 A landmark development scheme for Digbeth has been unlocked thanks to a £5m investment from the West Midlands Combined Authority. Stone Yard will deliver 995 homes on 1.37 hectares of brownfield land in the centre of Birmingham with work set to start on site in 2022 and be completed in four years. The deal announced in […] Posted by: Mark Flanagan Read more
Government to send Transport jobs to Leeds and Birmingham Mar 15, 2021 Hot on the heels of the Treasury’s announcement to create a Northern headquarters in the North East, the Department for Transport this morning revealed plans to put a second HQ in Birmingham and a northern hub in Leeds. Earlier this month Chancellor Rishi Sunak committed to moving hundreds of civil service jobs to Darlington and […] Posted by: Mark Flanagan Read more
New Ministry of Housing headquarters to be located in Wolverhampton Feb 23, 2021 Development opportunities in Wolverhampton could be set for a major boost after the Ministry of Housing announced plans to create a joint headquarters in the city. Minister Robert Jenrick is set to confirm more details in spring but the overall aim of the initiative will see 500 departmental staff working in the West Midlands city […] Posted by: Mark Flanagan Read more
