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Alterations were also made to the layouts of the apartments between floors 10 and 19 to provide a further 29 flats. The planning application was approved on 16 December 2004. [ 8 ] The building was constructed in three phases with Phase 1 being the corner on Navigation Street and John Bright Street and the John Bright Street frontage.
The flats quickly deteriorated and they were eventually knocked down in 1980. Private houses were built on the site in 1987. Stanhope Street was called Ryland Street up to 1881. Louisa Ryland was a member of one of the wealthiest families of Birmingham, and owned a lot of land in Birmingham, including parts of Highgate.
On the road, Turves Green there is a small shopping centre with a Cooperative shop and a Dental technician among others, near those shops are more post-war council houses, maisonettes and flats with further tower blocks. The road, Turves Green has mainly private houses with some two-story private maisonettes and some council properties.
The tallest building in the Birmingham Metropolitan Area is Octagon, a 49-storey, 155-metre (509 ft) residential tower which forms part of the Paradise development in Birmingham city centre. Octagon surpassed Birmingham's tallest structure , the 140-metre (458 ft) BT Tower , and previous tallest residential building, the 132-metre (433 ft ...
It is also a council constituency of Birmingham City Council, managed by its own district committee. Historically it lay within the county of Worcestershire. [2] The 2001 Population Census found that there were 25,921 people living in Hall Green with a population density of 4,867 people per km 2, this compares with 3,649 people per km 2 for ...
The tunnel entrance to the court runs between No. 52 Inge Street/ 2 Court 15 and No. 54 Inge Street/ 3 Court 15. Each pair of houses shares a single chimney set on the ridge of the roof. The two back houses each have a bay window to allow more light into the ground floor room. The lower floors to these houses have been divided by two spine walls.
Birmingham Council House Extension (contains parts of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) II* 1913 Ashley & Newton Birmingham and Midland Institute: II* 1889 Jethro Cossins, F. B. Peacock & Ernest Bewley: Birmingham Town Hall: I 1832; 1837; 1849–1851 Joseph Hansom & Edward Welch. Charles Edge: Chamberlain Memorial: II 1880 John Henry Chamberlain
Bennetts Hill was created as part of the 19th-century Inge estate development. [ 2 ] 11 Bennetts Hill (now demolished) was the birthplace of the artist Edward Burne-Jones in 1833, a fact commemorated by a Birmingham Civic Society blue plaque on the site.