Plans for a major new development of student accommodation in Birmingham
Plans for a major new development of student accommodation containing more than a thousand bedrooms have been unveiled.
The project would see a car park in Birmingham’s Gun Quarter regenerated to contain three blocks of accommodation reaching nine, 13 and 24 storeys respectively in a C-shaped complex.
The application site is currently a 120-space car off New Town Row, next to the Lancaster Circus Queensway island, and the final development would contain 1,023 bedrooms divided over 103 studios and 158 shared flats of between five and seven bedrooms …