Plans for developer Vita Group include five new buildings ranging in height from 10 to 49 storeys and a new public square near Birmingham New Street station, Make’s The Cube and Stanton Williams’ Birmingham Post Box.
The scheme also includes a food hall and pedestrian routes linking Navigation Street with Holliday Street under Smallbrook Queensway, which links the site to Birmingham New Street Station and the city centre.
The planning of the goods station has been underway for two years. Vita Group has appointed SimpsonHaugh to lead the 2022 masterplan for the regeneration of the site.
The site has been idle for two years. Atkins Realis once occupied a wing of the demolished building here.
Before that, the area was closed in 1967 and occupied only by a railway station for goods. The terminus was later used as a Royal Mail sorting office and part of the site is now occupied by Associated Architects. Mailboxit was opened in 2000 and later renovated Stanton Williams.
John Weston, Development Director of Vita Group, said: “Over the last two years we have worked closely with Birmingham City Council, key stakeholders and the local community to shape the future of this important strategic site, completely transforming a vacant brownfield site. a new, sustainable suburb.
“The freight station has the potential to be an important catalyst for change in the city, creating new homes and jobs, as well as creating a vibrant new district with significant social and economic benefits for the city’s expanding cultural and hospitality sector.”
Permission was previously granted in 2017 for another regeneration masterplan for developer LCR Property by Fletcher Priest Architects. The scheme, which could rise to 23 storeys, has not been given the go-ahead.
Vita Group bought the site in 2022.