St Georges, Birmingham
Birmingham
Chord Deeley is seeking planning permission for a £160m mixed-use scheme in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.
The joint venture partners are planning to create a new living and working quarter, with more than 720 homes, offices, two hotels – the first in the Jewellery Quarter – a new multi-storey car park and retail and leisure space.
The scheme, called St Georges, is one of the biggest regeneration sites undertaken in Birmingham. The 2.75 ha (6.8 acre) site, bounded by Icknield Street, Camden Street and Carver Street and incorporating Pope Street and Moreton Street, will create a prominent new gateway at the run-down Icknield Street entrance into the Jewellery Quarter.
It is anticipated that 1,500 jobs will be created as a result of the development, with homes for more than 1,000 people.
The masterplan for the scheme has been designed by Urban Initiatives.
Birmingham agents Wright Silverwood have been appointed to market the retail and leisure space.
Birmingham
A Birmingham developer, who recently won an award for best urban renewal development, hopes to boost the regeneration of the city centre by building a hotel on the site of a former clothing factory and warehouse.
Great Hampton Estates, based in Brindley Place, wants to build the modern new 93-bedroom hotel on the site of the old Kentex buildings which fronts Constitution Hill in Hockley.
Great Hampton Estates is awaiting planning permission from

Birmingham City Council for the hotel and basement car park.
Southam
Naus Albion have started construction at Holywell Business Park which will comprise 250,000 sq ft of high quality office, industrial and warehouse accommodation on a site of 15 acres in Southam.
Phase 1 is called ‘The Centre’ and comprises small industrial / warehouse units ranging from 1,200 sq ft to 10,000 sq ft. The units will be ready for occupation in December 2007.
Construction will also shortly commence on Phase 2, known as ‘The Court’. This comprises a development of eight prestigious two-story office buildings ranging from 1,500 sq ft to 10,000 sq ft.
The balance of 8 acres remaining at Holywell Business Park will be developed to suit individual occupier requirements. Buildings from 10,000 sq ft to 130,000 sq ft can be provided.
Berry Morris and North Rae Sanders are acting as agents.
Burntwood
Lichfield District Council has resolved to support the granting of planning permission for Phase One of the new town centre proposals for Burntwood by London & Cambridge Properties Ltd.
Consent is still subject to referral of the application to the Government Office of the West Midlands and the completion of the Section 106 Agreement.
Phase One of the project on the 230,400 sq ft site will consist of 16 retail units of various sizes totalling 104,228 sq ft with A1 planning consent built adjacent to an existing Morrisons store of 49,318 sq ft, with Phase Two consisting of a mixture of associated retail and leisure uses.
Detailed design plans are currently being prepared and the contract will be awarded by the end of the year. The build programme will be approximately a year with the development open for trading in spring 2009.
LCP have appointed Johnson Fellows and Allen Hodkinson to market the development.
Nottingham
Lace Market Properties, on behalf of their client Cubic Property Holdings Ltd, have announced that Nottingham City Council have given the green light for the Lighthouse Development on Huntingdon Street, Nottingham.
The Lighthouse will contain 207 apartments and 33,000 sq ft of ground floor commercial space.