Almost 300 new\nstudents bedrooms are to be constructed on derelict land near Birmingham City. Developers eye derelict land near Aston and Birmingham City\nuniversities for an supplementary student project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New plans have been unwrapped to develop\n280 bedrooms on the site at the corner of Dartmouth Middleway and Heneage\nStreet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nThe development would have a combination of 214 self-contained studios with the\nremainder of the rooms in shared flats with social spaces on the ground floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\nwould also be 70 secure spaces for bike parking but nothing for cars if the\napplication is given the green light by city council planners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nproposed building, close to Aston University and Birmingham City universities\nand the National College for High Speed Rail, has been designed in a U shape of\nthree blocks reaching up to ten storeys at its highest point. It is expected to\ncreate ten full-time jobs once complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The application site, which is currently\nvacant, is in an industrial area of the city containing predominantly low-rise\nbusiness units dating from the 1950s and 60s built after extensive damage\nduring the Second World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During\nthe Victorian period, it formed part of a larger area including the Caledonia\nTin Plate Works, Excelsior Wire Works and a number of smaller buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nproject has been designed by Digbeth-based D5 Architects on behalf of a private\nlandowner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A design statement accompanying the\napplication said: “Given the site’s location along Dartmouth Middleway and\nits proximity to a number of higher education institutions, the site presents\nan ideal opportunity to develop student accommodation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The\nproposals seek to respond to the massing of the surrounding area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We\nbelieve the proposals are appropriate for the site given its position and\nbelieve they will be a positive enhancement to the existing streetscape.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Almost 300 new students bedrooms are to be constructed on derelict land near Birmingham City. Developers eye derelict land near Aston and Birmingham City universities for an supplementary student project. New plans have been unwrapped to develop 280 bedrooms on the site at the corner of Dartmouth Middleway and Heneage Street. The development would have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[1795,264,1794],"class_list":["post-27943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-aston","tag-birmingham","tag-dartmouth-middleway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}