Outline planning permission has been granted for Hammerson’s Edgbaston Street Gardens scheme, which had Howells on board as architect.

The development, which would require demolition of the Birmingham’s Bull Ring Indoor Market, would deliver up to 745 apartments or 1,544 student bedrooms, alongside green spaces, retail and leisure uses.

The site, currently occupied by the market with a multistorey car park above, sits adjacent to the Bullring shopping centre and the proposed Smithfield development.

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