Galliard and Apsley House Capital have submitted plans to Birmingham City Council for the four-acre AE Harris site in the city’s Jewellery Quarter.
The jv is planning 320 new apartments and 100,000 sq ft of commercial space in 20 buildings of between two and five storeys. The £125m scheme will be called St Paul’s Quarter.
Designed by Glenn Howells, the scheme will preserve two Grade II listed buildings at the site and open up a thoroughfare from Newhall Street into the Jewellery Quarter.
Gerard Nock, chairman at Apsley, said: “The Jewellery Quarter became increasingly industrialised from the 1960s onwards, but prior to that most people working in the area would have lived there too. It will be great to see this important gateway site returning to its roots, with more than 500 people living here.”
Engineering firm AE Harris has occupied the site since 1964 and plans to move to new premises in Frankley before the end of this year. It will use the sale proceeds to expand the business.
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