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Birmingham regeneration could signal 1,100 new homes in 35-storey complex

Developer Cole Waterhouse is eyeing industrial plot to build new apartments, hotel and commercial space

Cole Waterhouse is hoping to win the city's backing to build a hotel and more than 1,000 new homes on this site in Digbeth

New plans have been unveiled to build more than 1,000 residential units and a hotel in Birmingham city centre in a complex reaching up to 35 storeys.

Developer and investor Cole Waterhouse is behind the £260 million project in Digbeth after the company's recent acquisition of 3.5 acres of land from five separate landowners.

It is still working up its final designs for the application site off Upper Trinity Street and Adderley Street but a newly published environmental impact report into the project has unveiled more details about the final scheme.

According to the report, Cole Waterhouse is hoping to win the city's backing to build up to 1,100 apartments, a hotel of up to 41,980 sq ft with around 120 rooms and commercial units for uses such as retail, offices, cafés and restaurants.

There would also be new public realm, access to the neighbouring Grand Union Canal and parking for bikes and up to 120 cars.

Existing buildings on the site, which is also bordered by Bowyer Street, would be demolished except for the Pump House and Lock Keeper's Cottage which would be converted for commercial and community use.

The application site will be connected to the new HS2 terminal via the nearby extension of the West Midlands Metro tram network into Digbeth.

A planning application is due to be lodged next spring.