Duchess Road Car Park

Duchess Road Car Park is one of Birmingham City Council's many underused city centre car parks, where affordable homes can be built in the airspace above the parking. In this case we're showing a very tall block of 72 sustainable homes above a re-used car-park reformatted for EV charging and extended as required to ensure no loss of the existing parking spaces. 

The local community are asking the council to transfer the land to them. This might mean we have to bid against for-profit developers but we think we'll win with our non-profit business plan for community owned affordable homes. The more 'we' (the community and Little Ships) have to pay for the land, the bigger % of market homes will be needed to pay for the land.

The design provides lots of communal space for neighbours to meet and grow plants in their 'front gardens' as well as harvesting vegetables in the vertical allotments. The planners may ask us to reduce the tower to the same height, but this would still be 48 much needed affordable homes for Birmingham residents, workers or students.

Send us an email if you would like to live in one of these or a similar home in central Birmingham.