Net Zero Carbon Development In Birmingham City Centre Announced By The Woodbourne Group
The world’s first mixed-use net zero carbon development in a key quarter of Birmingham city centre that could create more than 1,000 jobs has been unveiled by the Woodbourne Group, an investment and development organisation.
The £360m waterfront ecosystem, to be named ‘Curzon Wharf’, will be within eight minutes walking distance of the proposed ‘HS2 Curzon Street Station’.
The 993K sq ft site will provide mixed-use space providing up to 732 student flats, 265 residential co-living units with amenity space and up to 498 residential units.
It will include nearly 130,000 sq ft of office, R&D and life science space, over 3,000 sq ft of retail space, 15,000 sq ft of leisure space, more than 76,424 sq ft of new and improved public realm with 490m of walking and cycling routes.
The built-to-rent element will stand 53 storeys high making it Birmingham’s tallest building at 172m. The purpose-built student accommodation will be 41 storeys and the co-living 14 storeys tall.
The hybrid plans have been designed following five years of consultation with Birmingham City Council and a team of regeneration and built-environment specialists.
Woodbourne Group chief executive Tani Dulay has said that ‘Curzon Wharf’ isn’t just a development, it’s a manifesto positioning Birmingham as UK’s leading smart and sustainable city, helping to pave the way for the UK’s Green Revolution whilst reinforcing Birmingham’s position as the UK’s second city. It will also act as a catalyst for the wider transformation of a section of the city which, as a consequence, will now also benefit, signposting Birmingham’s route to delivering transformational change to the city.
West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street, has said that this is an incredibly exciting and innovative masterplan which will not only potentially create more than 1,000 jobs at what will be a critical time for the region’s economy as it recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, but through being net-zero and contributing towards the WM2041 goal will also with the life sciences element, help create a number of high-skilled, well-paid jobs in a key industry of the future, building on recent investment at the life sciences site in Selly Oak.
Curzon Wharf is the subject of a public consultation period which began on Friday, March 12th and will close after two weeks on March 26th.
