Commercial building, hotel and new public realm schemes submitted to city council

Three planning applications have been lodged to Birmingham city council to complete the second phase of the city鈥檚 拢700m Paradise redevelopment.

It follows a public consultation launched in the summer on the plans by developer MEPC, which took over the scheme from Argent in July. MEPC is the development arm of Hermes which has been a long-standing funder of the Paradise scheme.

The first application is for a 180,000sq ft commercial building, Three Chamberlain Square, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.

The second is for a 17-storey hotel designed by ISA Architecture & Design and Paradise masterplanner Glenn Howells Architects.

Three Chamberlain Square - Ratcliff Passage

Plans for three major schemes at Birmingham鈥檚 拢700m Paradise development have been lodged with city planners

The third application is for a series of new public squares and pedestrian routes through the development, designed by landscape architect Grant Associates. It will see statues of steam engineer designer James Watt and chemist Joseph Priestley returned to the area.

Planning consultant Turley has worked with MEPC and the design teams on all three phase two applications.

Phase one of the development has already been completed with office buildings One Chamberlain Square and Two Chamberlain Square, both built by Bam, with the former occupied by 2,000 PwC staff in January 2020.

Arup has also committed to taking three floors of Glenn Howells鈥� One Centenary Way building, currently being built by Sir Robert McAlpine.

The wider 2 million sq ft development will see up to 10 new buildings across 17 acres of the city centre when complete, including offices, shops, bars, cafes, restaurants and an octagonal 49-storey residential tower designed by Glenn Howells.

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