Project Promoter: Urban Growth Company (on behalf of MBC)

UK Central Hub and Scale: HS2 Interchange £2bn+ GDV Sector: Solihull, West Mixed use – infrastructure, commercial and residential Opportunity Location: The Hub sits at the heart of the UK’s transportation Solihull, network and is unique in offering development opportunities, with unrivalled connectivity creating Europe’s best connected location for business, leisure Investment Type: and living. Equity investor, developer The UK Central Hub in Solihull offers opportunities for & development funder long-term equity investors, large scale development funders and operational partners interested in Planning Status: infrastructure, energy, transport and large-scale, mixed- Proposed within Solihull Draft use development. Local Plan ugcsolihull.uk Overview Project Description The UGC is delivering four key projects at The Hub to ensure it becomes Europe’s Background best-connected destination for business, Within The Hub, a new master plan for leisure and living: the National Exhibition Centre, ‘nec- The UGC has agreed a schedule of changes city’, identifies 75 hectares of land for with HS2 Ltd to deliver additional and redevelopment, phased over a number of improved infrastructure, facilitating the years, supporting new residential, office creation of a new, sustainable, urban quarter and entertainment development. at Arden Cross, with the HS2 Interchange Immediate occupier and design and build Station at its heart; opportunities are available at Birmingham Business Park, with planning consent for Redeveloping Birmingham International a total of over 223,000 sqm of mixed use Station on the West Coast Main Line by development space 2025 to create a fully-integrated transport exchange with seamless connections The Hub is a 1,300 hectare area of land between the HS2 Interchange Station, in Solihull, just off Junction 6 of the M42 and the NEC; motorway. It is home to Birmingham Airport; the National Exhibition Centre Ensuring the future-proof supply of all (NEC); Birmingham International Station; utilities – particularly electricity – to support Birmingham Business Park; Jaguar Land the anticipated growth of stakeholders Rover; and the 140 hectare Arden Cross including Jaguar Land Rover and development site which will be the location Birmingham Airport; and of the HS2 Interchange Station from 2026. Scoping and delivering a cross-boundary, On behalf of Solihull Council, the Urban responsive, common parking system, Growth Company’s (UGC) task is to maximise managed dynamically, utilising the the opportunities associated with the arrival existing car parks and freeing up potential of HS2 at The Hub in 2026. Its role is to align development land. the growth plans of all stakeholders and create a unified framework for development, Project Promoter and Partnerships as well as lead and deliver £1.6bn of The project promoter UGC, on behalf of infrastructure investment at The Hub. Solihull MBC is working in partnership The UGC’s Growth & Infrastructure Plan with Greater Birmingham and Solihull predicts that The Hub has the potential to Local Enterprise Partnership and West support up to 77,500 new jobs and create up Midlands Combined Authority. to 775,000sqm of commercial space, up to 5,000 homes and £4.1 billion GVA per year.

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