shedkm welcome to our public event we want your views, suggestions and ideas
We are absolutely committed to working with the community to help We recognise the enormous potential or the site and how important evolve our masterplan vision for the Birmingham Central Bus Garage. the area is to local people, community groups and businesses. We believe the regeneration of this area of Digbeth can act as a catalyst The Central Bus Garage site will form the heart of an exciting new for regeneration of this vibrant neighbourhood. area - South Digbeth - which extends regeneration to the south eastern edge of Birmingham City Council’s ‘Digbeth Quarter’. In turn, helping We hope you find the exhibition exciting, interesting and informative. to establish a new arrival destination for the planned east extension of We want to know what you think about our current proposals, to help the Midland Metro Alliance tram. us shape how we go forward.
Our site sits close to the existing Duddeston Viaduct within easy reach of Small Heath’s established thriving and close to the core of a thriving established creative quarter.
Birmingham city centre
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aerial view of birmingham central bus garage site view from liverpool street
call: email: website:
+44 (0) 121 295 9910 [email protected] hubgroup.co.uk/projects/digbeth-bus-garage/
shedkm shedkm delivery team
HUB is an experienced, people-centred developer delivering thoughtfully designed homes and places in well-connected locations.
The company was set up in 2012 with the recognition that too many of today’s developments are not accessible to the majority of people in the UK. With a pipeline of over 3,000 homes, both for sale and rent, HUB is going some way to make up for the shortfall. Beyond supplying well-designed homes, HUB’s focus centres on providing spaces for local communities to engage, interact and grow.
To achieve this, HUB carries out extensive public consultations and community engagement programmes and offers local employment and training schemes across its sites.
Having undertaken more than 1,000 conversations with the community, we hope to have formed genuine relationships with local people that have helped shape our plans.
We’ll be providing people with new places to live, including a vibrant mix of creative, commercial, industrial, retail and leisure uses. hubgroup.co.uk material store the boiler house
queen’s quarter the landing hoola shedkm shedkm is an award winning and innovative design practice with Periscope are a multi-discipline design practice with expertise in the Kaizen, founded in 2000, is an award-winning social business that studios established in both Liverpool and London. They have designed fields of architecture, landscape and urbanism. We offer the broad specialises in designing, delivering and facilitating cutting edge and created projects with a strong identity and contextual presence. range of skills and services that larger multidisciplinary offices offer but projects. Everything we do is focused on making a difference: with the dynamism and personal service of a smaller practice. empowering individuals, teams and communities. shedkm’s masterplanning starts with a ‘ground up’ process of discovery and understanding in order to create places that have authentic look, Our design ethos is routed in collaboration, sustainability and research. We have worked with organisations ranging from Local Authorities to feel and atmosphere. Places re-established with a story to tell. We strive to make buildings and landscapes which are embedded schools, small charities to Universities, international companies to the in their place, are specific to their circumstances and context and London 2012 Olympics. In the past year we have delivered 81 projects The practice researches places to understand the existing grain whilst are designed based on evidence and rigour as much as wit and for 47 different clients, including 14 consultations interviewing over not being afraid of change. They listen to developers and urban poetry. We often experiment with making elements of our projects 7,600 people. planners but challenge values through the creation of masterplans that as we design, considering the pragmatics alongside the poetics. grow from and embed themselves within a place. Ultimately, we believe that good design happens when there are strong collaborations between clients, designers, users and makers. The practice work on larger vision pieces to create frameworks for the strategic regeneration of vast areas of existing urban grain. They Projects include housing led regeneration landscapes in London, new strategise to ensure future development which holistically delivers homes in High Wycombe, an Arts Centre in Kampala and several balanced communities through design coding and planning control. masterplans across the UK. [email protected] [email protected] wearekaizen.co.uk
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shedkm shedkm site history timeline
7th Century
Early settlements of 12th Century Birmingham start with Digbeth, close to the River Rea. Birmingham becomes 1156 an important trading hub, receiving a market charter from Henry II 13th Century Early Formation of watercourses and Now deemed a ditches 1295 moderately sized market town, urban settlement developed long Barbage plots stretching north-south 14th Century
Notable buildings 1368 established, including / The Old Crown and 1380 St John the Baptist the 16- 17th Century chapel
Birmingham well 1538 established as a growing centre for the metalworking trade. 18th Century 1562 Rapid population growth led to increased urban 1780 Extension of the canal settlements network accelerated the development of historic 1975 kingston hill aerial view Digbeth.
Extreme densely packed residential areas formed rows or terraces of 3-3 storey 19th Century back-to-back houses industrial past all-conquering omnibus reached by narrow Birmingham Gas Light alleys 1837 & Coke Company built Digbeth has been a place of industrious By the mid-1930s, an increasing majority of -75 gas works off Fazeley 1780 Birmingham named activity and community due to its proximity to Birmingham’s road public transport needs St ‘first manufacturing town in the world’ the city, its network of streets and canalside were being met by diesel omnibuses. The new 1838 Arrival of the railways introduced station location. In amongst the industrial landscape Liverpool Street Garage opened in 1936 , terminus to London was an eclectic mix of Bedstead Works, with a capacity for 150 buses. Warwick Works, and an Iron Works, Vinegar 1889 Following Industrial Revolution 20th Century Brewery, Beehive Foundry and Malleable advancements, much (Collins, P., 1999, p100) of Digbeth is built Nail Foundry. up of large industrial Construction of notable complexes buildings: 1902 - The Custard Factory (remaining in operation until 1960s) 1909 - The former retort house, on a gasworks site 1929 - The former Typhoo tea packing works and Mid 20th Century + warehouses 1935 - The municipal bus 1988 The Bond Company is depot in Liverpool and formed across Adderley streets two main sites 1939 Extensive damage 1993 Funding is secured to during WWII, many restore The Custard - 45 buildings destroyed Factory. The first phase is launched 1951 The Birmingham Corporation Act 1935 2014 Birmingham City granted power to Council’s Curzon HS2 widen Digbeth and Masterplan Area Deritend High Street. published
2017 Oval acquires part of Digbeth for some much needed investment to revitalise the neighbourhood
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shedkm shedkm approach
what sort of elements would be good to include in We’ve worked closely with local the development plans for the site? 100% 90% consultees and stakeholders as well 80% 70% 60% 50% as conducting an extensive process of 40% 30% 20% 10% community engagement. 0%
gallery pub/barnightclub event space family homes student housing live-work spaces cafes/restaurants small businesses communitycanal facilities side mooring creative/artist studios affordable workspace maker/industrial space market play(eg food/crafts) space for children Over 1000 people have given their views so far 440 169 36 51 individual interviews street focus groups recorded free-flow days of outreach discussions
Of those we spoke to
10% 39% mixed asian 38% 62% women men 51% 14% 38% of people were under age 35 black white
15% 46% 89% of people were over age 55 had a connection of +10 years of people had never been to the area consulted before or not much before
Some interesting views/stats/findings
83% 80% 71% rated the area 6/10 said the proposals would said community facilities or above; 1 being terrible / bring benefit to this part of would have a high benefit 10 being great! Birminham to the local area
shedkm shedkm describe digbeth
What 3 words would you use to describe Digbeth?
My aspirations Yeah, the scheme is for Digbeth are bound to improve contradictory the area I want to see change, but I don’t It’s about time it want to lose the changed! charm
Digbeth needs a Capitalise on facelift & mix of its bohemian & people living and quirky nature. working & public Retain its old area qualities
The development It has everything would bring we need! benefit... My extended family! Very much so with community facilities
shedkm shedkm strategic vision a new canalside neighbourhood in south digbeth
We are seeking to provide a tight urban grain, where buildings ground themselves in a varied and authentic “Digbethian” landscape.
Our strategic vision is to: be authentic, local + distinctive make the junction a new destination for the city create opportunities for economic progression explore new typologies for city centre living in Digbeth provide open space for recreation celebrate the arrival of the tram be vibrant + different be engaging at ground level
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HS2 curzon street station ?
HS2 eastside
pedestrian
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commercialcivic ?
small heath + midland eastside metro link
creative ? commercial
tram stop creative future vision opportunity resi ?
future bordesley junction ‘landmark’ positions distinctive zones distinctive streets distinctive landscapes
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Zone 1 canal-side = activity spilling out onto the street Street 1 Liverpool Street = metal work arches Landscape 1 = Liverpool Street + Bordesley Yard Zone 2 heritage = enjoyment of a unique setting Street 2 Adderley Street = tramway arrival Landscape 2 = Adderley Street Zone 3 industrial = old + new energy together Street 3 Bowyer Street = industrial heritage Landscape 3 = Bowyer Street Landscape 4 = Bordesley Wharf
shedkm shedkm place vision bordersley juction south digbeth’s canalside masterplan
Our vision for Bordesley The development will provide homes, The arrival of the Midland Metro Alliance Junction recognises the employment and a progressive outlook for the Eastside Link at the heart of Bordesley special and unique context thriving local alternative creative community. Junction vision area cements our site of the canal as the catalyst This masterplan will reconnect with the as the centre point from which future for transformation of South waterway, reconnect with the viaduct, connections will grow. It is the junction of provide new connections with the city centre. streets, canals, tramway and people. We Digbeth as a future place of It will become a place of activity , leisure, will reinforce the emerging Curzon Street creative productivity and active culture, and enjoyment, all within a stone’s Eastside link with identifiable tall marker communal life. throw of the city. buildings visible at a city-wide scale.
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shedkm shedkm place vision + use a creative and social ground floor
We are creating a tighter Digbeth’s distinct urban quality helps to create mix of uses set within a bustling and urban grain, where buildings a unique experience and gives it an already social landscape. We imagine daily ground themselves in a varied well-defined sense of place. Its character is a life spilling out from buildings into the and authentic landscape. combination of its historic urban form streets, streets and public spaces through the buildings and materials, which are ever- day and evening; small incubator spaces This will evolve to help shape present in its collection of buildings and canal for single employee businesses to larger a new neighbourhood that infrastructure. workspaces, kiosks for eating and drinking will feel “Digbethian” at its to canalside restaurants and bars, local core; a future thriving hub of The proposed ground floor will provide convenience shops and retail spaces will creativity, productivity and life. the framework for a vibrant and diverse become the backdrop to everyday life.
canal living
permission wall mixed
workspace lounge play
upper bowyer street 3 communal lounge canal walk creative workspace bordesley junction food market art
makers’ arches event space
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creative 4 affordable workspace workshops
liverpool street coffee liverpool gully fun meeting lively square bordesleywharf safe yard eventsdrinks cultural food urban
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culture
cycles edgy
enjoy nursery/crèche
shops stalls 1 community bowyer street convenience market 2 connected arrival metro link affordable local supermarketcomforting cyclists
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artsy cultural yard trinity workspace workshops studio affordable square nursery incubator space affordable makers workshop 6
ground floor key
00 plot reference number retail commercial (affordable) leisure residential food + beverage back of house convenience retail residential core
shedkm shedkm landscape + public realm look and feel of the place
3 liverpool street north 4 liverpool gully
5 trinity square 6 bowyer street materiality key plan
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emerging residential living types
Our new neighbourhood will be Bordesley Junction will re-establish up to 800 residential-led, providing homes residential life at the heart of South knitted into a creative, social and Digbeth maximising the central location residential homes industrious mixed-use ground floor between two unique geographic features environment. We are seeking to - Grand Union Canal and Duddeston create up to 800 new residential Viaduct - that provide opportunities for circa 600 homes and in the region of 600 canal views and future sky park views alternative living typologies (‘co- against a city skyline backdrop. alternative living living’ rooms / student rooms). accommodation
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00 plot reference number 3 bedroom apartment 2 bedroom apartment 1 bedroom apartment studio apartment alternative/ co-living room alternative communal co-living residential core
shedkm shedkm feedback + next steps... thank you what happens next
Your thoughts and ideas play a crucial role in shaping the future We hope to submit a planning application early in 2020. The of this masterplan. Let us know what you think by using one of the Council will then open its formal consultation process. Feedback Forms, or speak to a member of the team. We will continue to listen to, and consult with, the local community With your feedback, we will continue to evolve our proposals throughout the evolution of the design proposals. for this unique site and make a submission to Birmingham City Council’s planning department. Your input will be documented in Our planning application will include proposals for public spaces the Statement of Community Involvement. alongside the canal with a key new public space fronting onto Bordesley Junction. We will be including a diverse mix of creative, This will be a public document, available to all, that will industrial and residential uses to help the long-term growth of South accompany the planning application. Digbeth. We look forward to your input and thoughts on these.
We are excited about generating a positive, lasting impact among the local community.
Throughout the construction phase, we plan to provide training, employment and apprenticeship opportunities to many local people.
Thank you for your time and input.
call: email: website:
+44 (0) 121 295 9910 [email protected] hubgroup.co.uk/projects/digbeth-bus-garage/
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