3.2 Baseline Analysis Panel Newsletter Land Use Dec 2020 and Jan 2021

On entering the study area, north of Arden Cross, the HS2 railway corridor section interfaces with a character area, which STOCKLAND comprises mainly of agricultural land use GREEN GRAVELLY Water Orton up to the Delta Junction area. WITTON HILL WATER ORTON Coleshill On entering the tunnel section, to the west Parkway Gravelly of Water Orton, the trace runs through the Hill Northern Industrial corridor, Witton bound to the south by mainly suburban typology homes. COLE END marks the point where CASTLE BROMWICH the railway infrastructure dissects the industrial corridor, running into the city to COLESHILL WASHWOOD BUCKLAND END terminate at the Curzon Street station. HEATH

HODGEHILL WARD END The site allocation plan further in this section shows future development ASTON proposals. KINGSHURST

Duddeston PELHAM

ALUM ROCK

STECHFORD Adderley LITTLE Park BROMWICH HS2 route into Birmingham, HS2 Ltd

Curzon Street LEA HALL FORDBRIDGE This workTILE CROSS exemplifies the potential HS2 has to deliver Urban integrationSMALL HEATH Bordesley CHELMSLEY its commitmentKITT’S GREEN to be ‘moreWOOD than a railway’. The study identifies a number of opportunities, some of Residential 0 500 1000 1500 2000 Agricultural Since the earliest days of its work, the HS2 which HS2 may deliver, and others that will require Industrial Independent Design Panel has highlighted the partnershipMARSTON working GREEN or stakeholders to take a lead in Retail centres Commercial need to maximise the opportunities for HS2 to their delivery. The panel suggests that there would be LOD & LLAU deliver public benefit. It has advocated for strong value in HS2 Ltd defining priorities for their delivery. Birmingham HS2 Railway urban design expertise within HS2 Ltd, to help For example, a particular focus could be givenInterchange to any 1MC08-BBV_MSD-BR-REP-N001-101039understand and deliver the contribution HS238 could opportunities which could help unlock long-term make to the places and spaces along the line of regeneration ambitions or deliver public benefit early route. on.

In 2018, HS2 Ltd established an Urban Design and Phase 2a is expected to achieve Royal Assent in Integration Team. Since then it has developed a early 2021. Urban and context integration studies number of urban and context integration studies will be a valuable tool to engage with communities for different locations across the route. In January, and stakeholders in new conversations focused the panel met with HS2 Ltd to discuss an urban on maximising the project’s benefits. This will integration study for east Birmingham. The panel help support a place-based approach that can continues to be impressed with the quality of look beyond the project ’red line’ and ensure that, this work, and encourages HS2 to develop more through great design, HS2 delivers economic, social studies of this nature. and environmental benefits for the whole country.

Design Panel activities December 2020 and January 2021

· Green Corridor prospectus and mapping tool · Euston joint design panel programme workshop · HS2 Materiality Assessment · HS2 Landscape Design Approach update · HS2 Ltd response to recommendations made within the DK&A ‘Planning the Panel and its Future Focus’ report

Route-wide meetings Phase One station meetings

4 · Washwood Heath Depot and Network Integrated Control 1 · December and January monthly team meetings attended by Centre workshop meeting the Design Panel chair, vice chair, secretariat and HS2 Ltd · East Birmingham corridor urban integration study · Governance Advisory Panel meeting attended by the Design workshop meeting Panel chair, vice chair, deputy chairs and secretariat · Design Panel quarterly senior executive meeting, attended by the HS2 Ltd senior executive and design teams, the Department for Transport (DfT), and the Design Panel. 2 Workshop meetings 4 Governance meetings Washwood Heath

Washwood Heath will be the location for a train maintenance depot and a control centre. With a total site area of around 63 hectares, the scale of transformation in this part of Birmingham will be Mike Lewey 3.1 Area of Study enormous. Senior Architect, HS2 Ltd At previous discussions with HS2 Ltd, the Design Landscape Character Panel has highlighted that the site’s complexity, scale and prominence all reinforce its potential to contribute to the city and to local communities, People's stories and should treated with the same importance as Mike is an architect and project manager with an HS2 station. more than 25 years of experience on the design and delivery of transport facilities around the In December 2020, the panel met with HS2 Ltd world. He is currently the architecture subject to understand the progress which has been matter expert for the HS2 Network Infrastructure made since the previous meeting (2018). Overall, Control Centre (NICC) and all HS2 depots. The character of the landscape affected the panel welcomed the progress HS2 Ltd had by the HS2 railway infrastructure project made and applauded the attention being given “HS2 maintenance facilities and the NICC will help to integration of the landscape. It stressed that ensure HS2 passenger service consistently runs changes significantly within the study area. this important site has the potential to be a local on time, is safe, clean and reliable. At the heart of and national landmark, as an outstanding modern HS2 operations and maintenance are the staff. It industrial centre in the Midlands and as a gateway is important that they feel valued and respected to Birmingham – drawing on local industrial in their vital roles. HS2 will provide world class Water Orton From the mainly agricultural, protected history to create a distinctive place. workplaces enabling teams to perform at their Green Belt in the east, through suburban best, with a sense of pride. WATER ORTON Integrating the site within its context will be Coleshill residential neighbourhoods running into crucial to unlocking the potential of the area, We work closely with our multi-disciplinary Parkway Gravellyand acting as a catalyst for future regeneration. design partners to ensure that these facilities are Hill the Birmingham urban area, and onto the The panel encouraged the development of an best-in-class examples and return good value.CASTLE VALE Witton integrated masterplan, including both the depot We also regularly engage with the Design Panel, city centre via predominantly industrial site and the surrounding context. It will also be and their recommendations play a key role in BROMFORD land use east of Curzon Street. important for the newly established steering helping us to achieve our ambitions.” group to provide robust design leadership and co-ordination assuring design quality and the Landscape design approach delivery of a wider vision. Numerous infrastructure element solutions HS2 Ltd published the first version of the HS2 COLE END have been developed to overlay the new Aston Landscape Design Approach in July 2016. In CASTLE preparation for Royal Assent for Phase 2a , BROMWICHHS2 railway across this landscape; aiming to Ltd is in the process of reviewing it to capture lessons learned to date. At a meeting to discuss minimise the physical impact throughout NECHELLS the update in January, the panel stressed the COLESHILL WASHWOODfundamental role landscape must play in the the corridor. HEATHdesign of HS2. The panel feels that the update should be progressive, and use confident language which goes beyond mitigation to shift the focus towards a landscape-led approach to Washood Heath Depot site location, HS2 Ltd the design of HS2.

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Duddeston Frame Projects Secretariat to the HS2 Independent Design Panel Stechford

Adderley Park Lea Hall

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LOD & LLAU Birmingham HS2 Railway Interchange

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