Build-to-rent development in Digbeth will feature 0.4ha private gardens for residents
Birmingham City Council has approved Darling Associates’ proposals for 550 new homes at the south-east edge of the city’s Digbeth creative district.
The practice’s scheme, for build-to-rent specialist Goodstone Living, will deliver the homes in six blocks, ranging in height from three to 26 stories.
Coucillors on Birmingham’s planning committee had previously refused a 480-home incarnation of the proposals on the grounds of its potential lmpact on plans to reopen rail services on the nearby Camp Hill line. Then-housing secretary Robert Jenrick overruled the objection last year following an appeal.
Goodstone said it would use off-site volumetric modular construction and cutting-edge heating and building-fabric enhancing technologies in the latest version of the scheme to reduce embodied and operational carbon.
The firm was formed last summer and is led by Essential Living founders Darryl Flay and Martin Bellinger.
It forward purchased the homes from housebuilder Eutopia last year. Construction is expected to start in early 2023.
Bellinger said Birmingham’s BTR market was “hugely competitive”, putting the onus on developers and investors to keep raising the bar of what renters can expect.
He said the scheme’s 0.4ha private garden for residents was one example of how the business was looking to “create, foster and enhance local communities” through thoughtful design and development.
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