APPROVED: Bradford Street/Moseley Road
A residential redevelopment comprising 78 apartments has today been approved for Digbeth.
Brought forward by Home Nation Ltd & designed by K4 Architects, the site is located at the junction of Bradford Street & Moseley Road - and within the Rea Valley Urban Quarter.
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Another residential scheme for Digbeth has been approved! Another grim, vacant plot set to be redeveloped!
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Currently, home to a retail unit and a dwelling at 5 & 11 Moseley Street, Home Nation Ltd last year acquired the site off Rochda Ltd, and with committee overwhelmingly backing the proposals, the site is free to be demolished.
Although objections were raised by local residents and groups regarding scale, massing and materiality, committee considered the proposal a real positive addition to the city in a prominent corner location that badly needs reviving!
PLANS
The site will see a part 5, 6 & 8 storey apartment block, and the retention & restoration of a listed workshop at the rear - delivering 78 one, two and three bedroom units (40sqm to 88sqm) in a range of variants that will cater for one, two, three, four and five persons.
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A central courtyard area will add external communal amenity space for residents’, alongside roof gardens/private external amenity space on the upper levels.
The two storey listed building on site will be fully restored (great news!) and will keep much, if not all, of its original features, where possible.
It’ll be converted into 2 two bed/four person apartments and will become a major focal point of the new courtyard.
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CURRENT STATE
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The principal building will be constructed in a series of blue brick piers, setting out a grid of full height window bays. Louvres to the top of windows feature throughout the building with stone cast sills.
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Zero on-site car parking spaces is provided, however, a cycle store with 78 cycle spaces will be incorporated instead.
An appraisal of the applicant’s viability report shows that eight (10.26%) apartments will be available for low-cost home ownership, subject to a s106 legal agreement.
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The development was approved 6-2. Watch this space for more updates on this project!
All drawings & renderings the property of K4 Architects.