Rebirth of the River Rea approved by Birmingham City Council
Birmingham City Council’s Planning Committee has approved an application by Dandara Living to deliver over 1,300 new homes and commercial space at Warner’s Fields.
Following on from an earlier post, here's more regarding the development.
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The development will deliver a new sustainable neighbourhood centred around a renaturalised River Rea, which runs through the middle of the site, but is not currently accessible to the public.
Dandara will invest in landscaping the river, creating desirable new public spaces along its banks and laying the foundations for a dynamic new mixed-use destination a short walk from the city centre.
This first phase (below) of the development will spearhead the delivery of the Council’s Rea Valley Urban Quarter regeneration with successive phases delivering further homes, workspaces, commercial space and new active travel routes.
Dandara Living is one of the UK’s leading built-to-Rent Developers with an already strong track record of delivery in Birmingham City Centre at its sites at Aston Place and Unity & Armouries.
Rachel Allwood, Planning Director at Dandara Living, said:
“We are delighted that Birmingham City Council’s Planning Committee has today approved our
application to deliver a new neighbourhood at Warner's Fields.
The redevelopment will deliver much-needed new homes to meet Birmingham’s housing need and drive the ecological and environmental transformation of this part of the city by renaturalising the River Rea and delivering significant net biodiversity gain.
We are grateful to the Officers at BCC who recognised the necessity of this phasing and recommended the scheme for approval and to the Committee Members who approved it.”
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Warner Fields, images from Dandara Living/ Howells.