MAKER'S YARD

Sherlock Street, Bishop Street, and Hurst Street

Southside, Birmingham, B5

View the site map HERE.

 

PROJECT TEAM:

Developer: Watkin Jones Group

Architect: Stride Treglown, TPM Landscape

Project Manager/ QS: Watkin Jones Group

Principal Designer: Projex Building Solutions (Ridge)

Structural & Civil Engineer: Apex

M&E/ BREEAM: CDP

Acoustics: PDA

Frame: Stephenson Group

Fire Engineer: Jenson Hughes

Managed & Operated: Get Living

Planning Consultant: Turley

Planning Application Number: 2020/09624/PA

Targeted Completion: April 2025

 

The development

Maker's Yard will revitalise the area with 551 apartments, ground-level commercial uses, amenities, and new pedestrian routes, across six new buildings.

Expanding the city core further outwards, the project has been brought forward by Watkin Jones, and is being forward funded and will be operated by Get Living, the UK’s pioneer of large-scale BTR neighbourhoods.

Located next to Smithfield, a fab selection of one, two & three-bedroomed homes, of which 47 will be affordable, will be created alongside circa 16,5000K SF of vibrant forward-facing ground floor commercial, within buildings ranging from five, nine, 10, 11, 13 & 30-storeys.

Facilities include a 24-hour concierge, wellbeing hub(s), landscaped podiums, 608 bicycle spaces, 44 car/disabled spaces, a gym, co-working spaces, and a double-height reception and sky lounge. A new pedestrian-friendly public square will also be formulated to seamlessly link the site to the city centre & the burgeoning Rea Valley Urban Quarter.

Maker's Yard, images from Glenn Howells Architects.

Progress: Under Construction

May 2022 -

With the site now cleared, two piling rigs are now on site, signaling an early construction start.

July -

Earth has been broken and groundworks will now commence at speed.

September - 

Images from Stephen Giles.