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MCD, the urban regeneration specialist, has been given the green light to convert Birmingham's largest vacant office building into a new residential development - featuring 182 luxury apartments. The 140,00 sq ft building - Brindley House on Newhall Street - is 15 storeys high. MCD is to add another two storeys to the structure, which sits adjacent to the BT Tower and opposite the company's award winning £30 million Islington gates mixed-use scheme. Built literally on stilts over the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, the £37 million scheme will also create a new gateway to the jewellary Quarter and St Paul's Square, opening up the towpath, restoring the canal to its former glory and making an important new link from Brindley place and the Convention Quater.
Feb 2006 Birmingham PostThe veil has been lifted on one of Birmingham's newest residential landmarks, Holliday Wharf by Charles Church. To mark the release of the final phase of upmarket apartments, a new show property is now open. Out of an original 155 units, there are 45 left to but, a choice of one, two and three bedroom designs.
March 2006 Birmingham PostWalsall Council is working with people and partners in Blakenall, Bloxwich and Goscote to ensure that a massive investment of £250,000 that is being pumped into the transformation of a stretch of run down canal gives a huge boost to quality of life and improves the local community.
Walsall Council, Walsall's New Deal for Communities and British Waterways are joining forces to improve access and create a better environment between Teece's Road Bridge and Goscote Works Bridge Express and Star March 2006Birmingham's new city centre park will help shed its "urban inferiority complex" and be an example to the rest of the world, regenerartion experts claimed yesterday. The significance of the £12 million project was outlined at the launch of a competition to get a "world class" design for the green "oasis" at Eastside.
City planners hope to turn a strip of land fronting the Millennium Point complex and nieghbouring buildings in Curzon Street, and runnig nearly a kilometre long from the Digbeth Branch Canal to the Bullring and Selfridges, into Birmingham's first new public park in 125 years.
A burglar was caught raiding the till at canal charity offices in Stourbridge today - less than 24 hours after the building had last been broken into.
Stourbridge Navigation Trust staff living on a narrowboat near the offices in Canal Street were alerted to the break-in by a passerby at around 4.30am
Police were called and found the office door had ben kicked in and the thief hiding in the building.
A man was arrested and is being questiones by police. Today's incident was the latest blow for staff after thieves also targeted the office yesterday stealing £3,000 in cash and equipment.
It is not known if the two thefts are connected and police are continuing their investigations. Navigation Trust spokesman Colin Clements said staff were still picking up the pieces after the first robbery and could have had the same problem today if the passerby had not alerted staff.