Birmingham city council will unveil a detailed city centre masterplan which will form the second stage of its £17bn Big City Plan in June.
Waheed Nazir, the council’s new director of regeneration confirmed the move. “Stage one built a clear brand and vision and focused on the key issues,” he said.
“Stage two will build on how the city will look over the next 20-30 years.”
The council has been criticised for the perceived lack of progress on the ambitious project in recent months.
The detailed masterplan will be informed by three separate strategies currently being developed by the council on transport, design and pedestrian flow.
The plan will effectively put the “meat on the bones” of the existing conceptual vision.
Covering 2,000 acres of land within the city’s middle ring road, the BCP is one of the largest masterplanning exercises in the world.
A consortium led by consultancy Urban Initiatives has been working on the detail since its appointment in August 2007.
The plan extends the city centre core to the south and west to include Paradise Circus, New Street Station, Eastside, Digbeth, the Wholesale Markets, Southside and Attwood Green.
See Saturday’s Estates Gazette for an exclusive interview with Waheed Nazir.
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