REVISED plans for a new urban village near Birmingham city centre have been submitted to the city council.
The ‘Icknield Port Loop’ scheme has been on the backburner for a few years following the onset of the UK recession but now a new vision for the site has been submitted.
The original proposal by Manchester-based Isis, the regeneration arm of British Waterways, was to build around 1,800 residential units on land near Edgbaston Reservoir.
This has been superseded with a new outline proposal by British Waterways and the Homes and Communities Agency to build up to 1,150 new homes.
These would sit alongside employment, leisure and non-residential uses of up to 74,900 sq ft, including 27,000 sq ft of retail, together with a hotel, community facilities, open space, landscaping and associated transport works such as cycleways, footpaths and canal crossings.
It also wants to change the use of industrial buildings fronting Rotton Park Street to leisure, retail and non-residential uses.
The regeneration scheme would be built on land between by Ladywood Middleway, Icknield Port Road and Wiggin Street which is jointly owned by Birmingham City Council, the HCA and British Waterways among others.
Agents on the scheme are DTZ and a public consultation closes on December 8.
