NextGen- Paradise Circus- the Centre of the Big City Plan

Paradise Circus is a seventeen acre site situated between Chamberlain Square and Centenary Square and is a key part of Birmingham’s new Enterprise Zone and the delivery of the Big City Plan. An outline planning application has recently been submitted, a decision on which is expected shortly, to undertake a large mixed use development, providing c.1.8 million square foot of offices, shops, leisure, together with cultural and civic amenities plus a new four star hotel.

Paradise Circus- the Centre of the Big City Plan

BCO NextGen Midlands invite you to attend a short presentation from key individuals that are leading the delivery of Paradise Circus. Building on Argents success of the award-winning Brindleyplace, Kings Cross in London, and Piccadilly Place in Manchester, join us to take this opportunity to listen to the latest news and design ideas for the scheme. The team will talk about the Enterprise Zone and how it fits with the project and answer any questions you have about what is going to make this a development of the future plus the innovative approaches to providing new office space.

Speakers

Rob Groves – Argent
Rob Groves, Senior Project Director with Argent has over 25 years of planning, design and construction experience. Prior to joining Argent in 2007 he was an Equity Partner at a large multi-disciplinary consulting engineer practice. His experience includes mixed use residential, commercial, industrial schemes as well as major public sector infrastructure. 

Rob has led schemes from feasibility through to planning, compulsory purchase, which includes expert witness work, detailed design and construction.

Currently Rob is responsible for Paradise Circus which is a joint venture with Birmingham City Council for a new development of up to 2 million sq/ft in the city centre.
 

Davinder Bansal- Glenn Howells Architects
Davinder joined the practice in 1999 and became a Director of the Birmingham office in 2010. He is currently working with Argent and GMPVF on a 350,000 sq ft office led scheme in Manchester City Centre.

Other high profile projects include a new visitor centre at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire; Birmingham’s Eastside masterplan; Argent’s Paradise Forum in Birmingham and student housing at Kings Cross Central for Urbanest.
Completed projects include, The Triangle, an award winning sustainable community in Swindon for Hab Oakus; Eleven Brindleyplace, the “Best of the Best” British Council for Offices award winning building in Birmingham; Rotunda, the refurbishment of a Grade II listed iconic building for Urban Splash and Severn Trent Water’s new offices in Shrewsbury. Click here to continue reading…

 

  
   Timings

    12:00  Registration and lunch

    12:30   Welcome & Presentation

    13:15   Q&A

    14:00   Event Close

 

Kindly supported by  

Argent
 
 

 

Event now fully booked.

 

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  • Dates : 06/02/2013 - 29/03/2024
  • Times : 00:00:00 - 15:37:32
  • Venus : Eleven Brindleyplace, 2 Brunswick Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham, B1 2LP
    Birmingham
  • National : No
  • Available to non members : No
  • Non member price : £15