1,000 new homes for the Perry Barr campus site
Birmingham City University’s City North Campus is being closed for extensive housing development.
The site housed the University’s School of Education and Social Work.
The 14.5 acre site has been sold to the Homes and Communities Agency for £6.1 m
The sale was completed by GVA.
Plans are being drawn up to build 1,000 houses on the site.
The houses will first be used to accommodate athletes and officials at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Carl Potter of GVA said: ” This is a tremendous outcome for the site. Birmingham City University will be provided with the confidence that their departure in late 2018 will not lead to an under-utilised asset in one of the city’s main growth areas.”
Later this year the School of Education and Social Work will move into its £41m new home at the City South Campus in Edgbaston.
Professor Graham Upton, Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham City University said: ” We know that Birmingham’s population is growing faster than homes are being built, so our land will help the government address this problem, while creating new jobs and strengthening the Perry Barr community in the process.”
On move to a new campus Upton added: ” Meanwhile – our new purpose built 10,500m building in Edgabaston – which includes provision for research, a new lecture theatre, a multi-purpose hall, speech therapy, art and technology classrooms and IT hubs – will help ensure that we retain our status as the largest provide of teachers in the West Midlands.”
