More info soon, I’ll be covering this in more details when I get the. However here is a preview from today’s Eastside City Park Launch event I was invited to.
The hotel will between Island House and Masshouse, a part of the City Park Gate development.
Property Week has reported on phase one of City Park Gate. To me it screams a copy Associated Architects’ Severn Trent scheme in Coventry. Front elevation look good, rear facing towards the railway looks plain boring. I’ll let you guys decide.
Quintain Estates plans City Park Gate development
13:42 | 04.08.08
By Jennifer RigbyQuintain Estates has submitted planning for the first phase of its City Park Gate development in Birmingham.
It wants to build over 250,000 sq ft of offices in two buildings at the scheme, which is adjacent to Moor Street Station and overlooking Selfridges.
Quintain bought control of the plots last year and took the decision to rework the 1m sq ft scheme as a result of market conditions.
City Park Gate will be a mixed use scheme and will include four office buildings, a hotel, 250 homes, a supermarket and ancillary retail.
A decision from Birmingham City Council is expected in the autumn.
Savills is the agent.
Property Week has reported that a revised outline planning application for City Park Gate has been submitted. Of note, this is far larger than previous.
Quintain Estates plans City Park Gate development
13:42 | 04.08.08
By Jennifer RigbyQuintain Estates has submitted planning for the first phase of its City Park Gate development in Birmingham.
It wants to build over 250,000 sq ft of offices in two buildings at the scheme, which is adjacent to Moor Street Station and overlooking Selfridges.
Quintain bought control of the plots last year and took the decision to rework the 1m sq ft scheme as a result of market conditions.
City Park Gate will be a mixed use scheme and will include four office buildings, a hotel, 250 homes, a supermarket and ancillary retail.
A decision from Birmingham City Council is expected in the autumn.
Savills is the agent.
There was a slight change made to the planning application, which has now been approved.
Application number
C/00460/08/FUL
Date application received
25/01/2008
Date application registered
25/01/2008
Date application decided
10/04/2008
Location
City Park Gate – land bounded by Moor Street Queensway, Masshouse Lane, Park Street, City, Birmingham,
Proposal
Application to vary conditions C3,13,14,15 of C/07395/06/OUT to allow Plot 2 as residential &/or offices &/or hotel.
Status
Approved
As previously blogged about change in planning app, here is the report from the meeting dated 6th March,
“Committee Report City Park Gate – land bounded by Moor Street Queensway Masshouse Lane Park Street City C0046008FUL.pdf
This application proposes changes to the approved masterplan to enable a similar degree
of flexibility as already exists on plot 4 to also apply to plot 2. It is proposed that 3 principal changes are made:
- That offices be included as a potential use for plot 2, in addition to the office
accommodation already consented on plots 1 and 3. The total potential maximum office
floorspace across the site is therefore proposed to increase from 27,900m2 to 55,000m2.
- That hotel use be included as a potential use for plot 2, in addition to the potential for a hotel on plot 4. The maximum floorspace proposed for hotel use across the site remains
unchanged at 14,000m2 (only 1 hotel is proposed. If it is developed on plot 2 it will not be developed on plot 4 and vice-versa).
- That the maximum floorspace areas across the site and the permitted uses on each plot will continue to be controlled by the permission, however the maximum floorspace of each use within each plot is not restricted by condition. Thereby, enabling any floorspace within a particular use that is not taken up within a particular plot to be transferred to another plot that has consent for that use, so long as the development remains within the design parameters. For example the 55,000m2 of office use can be distributed as appropriate between plots 1, 2 and 3 providing the proposals remain within the approved design parametersIf the hotel is developed on plot 2 it is necessary to provide a pick up and drop off area
close to the hotel entrance. It is envisaged that the hotel will be developed at the location of building 2C as indicated on the original parameter plans. The hotel entrance would subsequently be the area of Island Place or the corner of Island Place with Moor Street Queensway. In order to allow for hotel guest traffic to access the pick up/drop off Albert Street, Island Place and Seymour Street will be shared pedestrian/cycle/vehicle route and a comprehensive management strategy will be developed for the hotel drop off and submitted as part of the reserved matters application. “
You can check out the planning application on the Birmingham City Council’s Planning Online web site. Application Number C/00460/08/FUL
“Section 73 application for variation of planning conditions for C/07395/06/OUT (conditions C3, C13, C14 and C15) to allow plot 2 to be developed for either residential or a combination of residential, offices and a hotel“
It is now known as “Quintain City Park Gate” and not “Countrywide Quintain City Park Gate“
Source: Estates Gazette,
Currently, the firm’s biggest project in Birmingham is the 1m sq ft City Park Gate, the next phase of the Masshouse regeneration in the £6bn Eastside regeneration zone, which received outline consent in December.
Until last year, the £250m project was a joint venture between Quintain and Countryside Properties.
Their plans were quite advanced, but in September the two split after citing “different aspirations”. Quintain then bought Countryside’s stake and decided to start from scratch.
The existing scheme includes 844 flats, 300,332 sq ft of offices, 99,031 sq ft of retail, and a 150,699 sq ft hotel, but Quintain has now instructed Shuttleworth to go back to his drawing board.
“We took a year off while they sorted themselves out, and now we are looking at a completely new scheme,” says Shuttleworth.
“We aren’t saying that we’re going tear the whole thing up and start again, but it will probably evolve into something fundamentally different.”
Whatever emerges, Shuttleworth is determined that it will not be dull. “When we started, we were very keen to get away from glass boxes,” he says.
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