SMALLBROOK QUEENSWAY
The Ringway Centre, 1-4 Smallbrook Queensway
Birmingham, view the site map HERE.
PROJECT TEAM:
Client: CEG on behalf of Dooba Investments II Ltd
Architects: Corstorphine+Wright, Fira
Funding: Sensitive [TBA]
Project Manager, Quantity Surveyor, Employer's Agent: MGAC
Principal Designer: Project Four Safety
Structural & Civil Engineer: Curtins
M&E: CPW
Demolition Contractor: Wring Group
Phase 1 Building Contractor: TBC
Facade: Wintech
Transport: Stantec
Fire Engineer: Ashton Fire
Wind Engineer: Architectural Aero
Acoustics, Air Quality: Hoare Lea
Right of Light: The Chancery Group
Building Control: Quadrant
Consultants: Montagu Evans
Planning Consultant: Turley
Planning Application Number: 2022/08496/PA
SMALLBROOK QUEENSWAY
The Ringway Centre could be reimagined with a £350M landmark net-zero, residential-led community, spread over three phases.
Injecting new life into the tired, barrier site, the plans would fully reinvent and reconnect the site with the city once more, offering an integrated, aesthetic, and safer environment.
Phase I (below) would see the demolition of two-thirds of The Ringway Centre, clearing the way for a 48-storey (151m), with a 9-storey podium and 571 all-electric build-to-rent flats (245 one, 270 two, 32 three beds/ 5 commercial: 701 sqm). A delivery partner is in place.
Phases II and III (outline approved) could see 44 and 56-storey towers. Up to 1,750 new homes & 7,100 sqm of commercial would be delivered across the site - including vibrant ground-floor food and drinks outlets, a spa, a cinema, a gymnasium, and a nightclub.
Three new planned public spaces would also be introduced (£6M minimum), forging new ties between two vibrant districts, allowing permeability through the site for the first time in a generation.
FUTURE PHASES:
A phasing plan for the final two builds - up to 44 & 56fl - hasn't been announced. Both are in outline form & require a more detailed application(s) (and further demo to SBQ1) in the next few years. They could go up concurrently - nothing has been confirmed.
DEMOLITION:
The three-phased development will see a historical building record and a pre-demolition audit before any demolition happens. This is to identify materials that could be reused on site or recycled, with a target of 85% of non-hazardous waste diverted from landfill.
We'll then see demolition up to the link bridge.
Two buildings would eventually occupy this site including a 48 storey in Phase 1. The site next to it (SBQ2) will lie empty. It is expected that a pocket park will become a short-to-long-term measure.
AFFORDABILITY:
Subject to grant funding, affordable three-bedroom family housing would be increased across all phases (More soon). Should grant funding not be forthcoming, however, a fallback option includes 15% affordability (119 units), with 38 units in Phase 1.
Smallbrook Queensway, images from Corstorphine+Wright.
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