Major Selly Oak Student Scheme Approved!

Watkins Jones Group has been granted approval to develop a canalside site in Selly Oak with sustainable purpose-built student accommodation containing 523 bedrooms.

After two years’ worth of engagement, plans were duly approved 9 - 1 today (September 30).

Set around a large central courtyard, and a galvanised canal, Glenn Howells’ BREAAM ‘excellent’ scheme will open the site up with the formation of two new buildings.

11 four-storey townhouses will be built along Elliott Road, while a main 4-6 storey building will wrap around three sides of the site, with the scheme combining 388 cluster bedrooms and 135 studios, including 14 accessible studios beds.

With an attractive green focus throughout, the scheme underlines its high sustainability credentials by delivering a spacious 2,500 sq.m centralised courtyard garden & additional space overlooking the canal - offering students plenty of space to study or unwind.

Other facilities include a gymnasium, study areas, and lounges.

A car-free scheme, cycle storage spaces for 176 will be provided to encourage sustainable travel.

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IMPROVEMENTS

Largely vacant units 5-8 of Selly Oak Industrial Estate will now be demolished as part of redevelopment works, boosting the area with major investment and opening the site up for the first time in years. 

Revolution Gymnastics currently reside within one of the units but are well advanced in their search for similarly-sized premises elsewhere in the city. A condition is in place that development cannot commence here without them being adequately relocated.

Once demolished, the site will undergo crucial new improvements to the canal towpath, as well as to the Bristol Road bridge.

This will see the towpaths widened, with increased visibility and new lighting – ultimately bringing new prosperity to the canal and its new area of public realm.

With a CIL payment of c.800K, other works could see £60,000 of S106 funding going to Birmingham City Council to deliver improvements to Selly Oak Park.

It is estimated that this new scheme could see as much as £2.6m injected into the local economy through spending from future occupiers of the development.

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