Plans revealed for Birmingham Commonwealth Games

Birmingham City Council plans to regenerate a former university campus for its 2022 Commonwealth Games athletes’ village.

The council has lodged a planning application for the revamp of the former campus in Perry Barr. The designs show how 6,500 athletes and officials will be catered for when they arrive in the country in 2022.

Glancy Nicholls Architects has developed the masterplan of the Commonwealth Games Village which will also feature a running track and plenty of green spaces just a short distance from Alexander Stadium where the track and field events will take place.

As part of the Games legacy plans, the village will provide around 1,400 new homes once the 11-day event finishes. The home will be available across a range of tenures including social and affordable rent, homes for sale, and for private rent. The development would also include an extra care village for older people and a community centre.

John Crabtree, Chair of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, said: “In the seven months since being awarded the 2022 Games there has been a lot of work done to prepare this planning application. Now is the time for anyone with an interest in the regeneration of Perry Barr to look at our plans in detail and give feedback to the city council planners. We want the people of the West Midlands to have ownership of the Games and this is one of the first significant ways in which they can do that.”

Birmingham was announced as the successful host city last December with the projected overall cost of the Games running to £750m, with the government covering around £560m of that figure and the local council £190m.