Birmingham City Council’s masterplan aims to create a world class station that’s wired into the location, enterprise and skills, people and spirit of Birmingham.
HS2 is a once in a century opportunity to radically enhance the City’s national rail connectivity and accelerate its economic growth potential. The new line and terminus will provide a catalyst to transform areas of the City Centre and unlock major regeneration sites, with the area around the station becoming one of the best connected and most productive business locations in the country. The Birmingham Curzon HS2 Masterplan provides the framework and principles to guide development, regeneration and connectivity to ensure that the City can capitalise upon the arrival of HS2 and fully realise its transformational impact.
This Masterplan maximises the regeneration and development potential of HS2 in the City Centre, in particular the Eastside, Digbeth and eastern side of the City Centre Core. These areas alone can provide:
- 36,000 (net) jobs
- 600,000sq.m employment space
- 4,000 new homes
- £1.4bn economic uplift.
Progress has already been made in the implementation of the Masterplan proposals through the establishment of the Curzon Regeneration Company. £30m of funding has already been secured towards infrastructure provision to deliver the proposals within the Growth Strategy developed by the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP).
The plans for the extension of the Midland Metro into Digbeth have also moved a step closer with £41.5m of funding already secured. Further funding through the recently announced extension of the City Centre Enterprise Zone will be secured to bring forward the complete Curzon Investment Package and so realise the significant growth potential of the whole area.
To find out more about the opportunity, places for growth, connectivity and delivery visit: www.birmingham.gov.uk/downloads/file/730/birmingham_curzon_hs2_masterplan
