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Construction work on a major new canalside housing estate in Birmingham has completed.

Soho Wharf has 752 units comprising 650 apartments and 102 townhouses which are available to rent only, including 64 homes at 20 per cent discount on market rate.

There is also 10,000 sq ft of commercial space, 300 parking spaces and a new bridge connecting the estate with the canal network while 40 per cent of the site is taken up by green space.

Lease agreements were agreed on almost 90 per cent of the properties between March and September.

Soho Wharf has been built on derelict land opposite City Hospital at the corner of Dudley Road and Heath Street South in the Ladywood district.

More than 100,000 sq ft of brick and corrugated iron industrial buildings and warehousing, which have been largely unoccupied and derelict for years, were removed from the brownfield site to make way for the new development.

It comprises a series of buildings reaching up to 14 storeys over a 11.6-acre site which adjoins both the Old Line and Main Line canals. The project has been led by developer Galliard Apsley Partnership working with investor Heimstaden Bostad.