Plans for final phase of Brindleyplace

Property group Argent has submitted a planning application for the final phase of Brindleyplace in Birmingham.

And demolition of the former MG Rover car plant at Longbridge is moving on apace.
Argent wants to develop a 107,000 sq ft Grade A office building.
Eleven Brindleyplace will be located in Brunswick Square on the site of the former Hotel and Catering Academy and adjacent to City Inn, at the gateway to the flagship scheme.
Demolition of the existing, two storey building will take place this month with an anticipated start on site scheduled for January.

Gary Taylor, director of Argent, said: "You only need to take one look at statistics for office take up in Birmingham city centre to know that we have suffered from a chronic undersupply of high specification office accommodation over the past 12 months. Developers are now responding with a number of schemes in the pipeline and due for completion in the coming two years.
"For this reason, we have worked to develop a building which will give occupiers a completely different offer to what is either available, under construction or planned currently.
"Eleven Brindleyplace will have smaller, more adaptable floorplates than are available in the city and occupiers will also be able to take advantage of a range of shorter, more flexible leases."
The 12 storey building has been designed by Glenn Howells Architects - the facade will be made of bronze anodised aluminium framing with stone panelling.
Cabinet Member for Regeneration Councillor Ken Hardeman, said: "The unveiling of Argent's plans for Eleven Brindleyplace is another positive step forward in the regeneration of the city."
Joint agents are GBR Property Consultants and GVA Grimley.
Meanwhile a five-months long operation has begun to demolish the old West Works buildings which cover 17 acres at Longbridge.
More than 700,000 sq ft of workshops, some of which in recent years have been used for assembly work and for storage, are being flattened as part of the £250 million regeneration of a large section of the former MG Rover car plant by St Modwen Properties and Advantage West Midlands.
It is the latest in a series of demolitions planned on the 342-acre site largely owned by St Modwen. Last month the landmark conveyor bridge which linked the South and West Works for 35 years was removed. The operation lasted three weeks with the final section being removed with a weekend closure of the A38. The North and South Works are also to be demolished during the next 12 months.
The future of the former works sites is the subject of an Area Action Plan designed to provide a strategic overview of the whole site and surrounding area, which is being put together by Birmingham City Council and Bromsgrove District Council in conjunction with St Modwen and AWM.
Work is already underway opposite West Works to create Long-bridge Technology Park where two buildings of 45,000 sq ft and 35,000 sq ft are being speculatively developed in the first phase of regeneration on the site.