A pre-planning utility has been submitted to Birmingham Town Council for the £48.5m redevelopment of the Invoice Space website on Soho Hill in Handsworth.
The two.5-acre website, which has been vacant for a number of years following a chain of fires, will see a mixed-use building together with 115 houses and apartments along an 80-bed care house.
The scheme is led by way of developer Pickstock Crew, with designs by way of Glancy Nichol Architects and making plans consultancy from RPS.
Pickstock building director Liam Davies stated the plans sought to take “a dynamic way to other housing typologies, providing reasonably priced housing, open marketplace sale and rent choices, along a supporting care provision be offering”.
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The design by way of Glancy Nicholls is meant to ship what managing director Adam McPartland described as “a complete redevelopment of a brownfield website this is delicate to the native traits, offering multi-generation dwelling, aligned with the desires of the area people”.
He added that the scheme “will create a way of position that feels unique, uplifting and contributing to the broader regeneration and supply aspirations for the world”.
In step with RPS making plans director Jacob Bonehill, the proposals “be offering a chance to ship much-needed new houses and employment alternatives past the town centre”.
He connected the challenge to the town’s broader technique, announcing: “Whilst the ongoing renaissance of the town core will have to be celebrated, for a ways too lengthy the advantages of expansion were centered throughout the Internal Ring Highway. That is exactly why the imaginative and prescient set out within the Central Birmingham Framework 2045 rightly appears to be like to fortify traits like this in places akin to Soho Hill.”
The redevelopment could also be supposed to beef up the streetscape and shape a part of wider regeneration efforts within the Handsworth space.
