Multi-disciplinary practice FPCR Environment and Design has won approval for its proposals build up to 800 new homes on the site of a golf course in south Birmingham in what was one of James Brokenshire’s last planning decisions as housing secretary.

Birmingham city council rejected the consultant’s outline plans – drawn up for Bloor Homes – to redevelop the former North Worcestershire Golf Club with up to 950 new homes, a primary school and new community hub in 2017.

Its grounds for refusal were that the site, which is near Longbridge, was not allocated for housing in the city’s recently adopted local plan. It also argued that FPCR’s masterplan was “flawed” because it did not pay “sufficient regard” to the landscape and ecology of the site.

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