The document summarizes proposed regeneration plans for the former Battery Park site in Selly Oak. Key elements of the plans include: - A new 80,000 sq ft Sainsbury's store to replace the existing one, along with shops, restaurants, and student housing. - A life sciences campus covering a third of the site that will provide jobs and research facilities. - Improved pedestrian access across the Worcester and Birmingham Canal via a new bridge. - Overall environmental and infrastructure improvements to the area through landscaping and road work.

1. Sainsbury’s
Regeneration
Features and benefits
New regeneration plans
What’s in store?
for Selly Oak
The proposed 80,000 sq ft (7,432 sq m) flagship Sainsbury’s will replace
the existing store in Selly Oak and feature:
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• The full range of popular Sainsbury’s food products
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Selly Oak
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• The full range of non-food items including TU clothing, homewares, electricals, CDs
and DVDs
• A customer restaurant
• Lifts, travelators and stairs to the shopfloor from ground level parking
• Cash machines
• Recycling facilities
• A pick-up/drop-off point
• An eight-pump petrol filling station
Your chance to see
the revised plans
Creation of a new shopping
destination
Anchored by a new Sainsbury’s store, the
site will be home to a variety of retail outlets,
as well as places to eat and drink, offering
something completely new in Selly Oak.
New canalside
The area around the existing canalside will
be improved and landscaped and a new
pedestrian bridge will provide a link across
the Worcester & Birmingham Canal.
New student accommodation
One block will be built adjacent to the
Sainsbury’s store facing onto the canal
and the new square, providing 400 rooms
for students.
Life Science campus
This will comprise of offices and laboratories
set around a landscaped communal
courtyard, providing jobs for up to
2,000 people.
As well as good cycle parking provision and
pedestrian routes, a multi-storey car park will
provide up to 800 spaces, and will be tucked
into the landscape to reduce its prominence
on the site.
The campus will enhance the worldrenowned research and development offer
provided by the University Hospital Trust at
the QE Hospital and the University, bringing
new commercial benefits to Selly Oak and
an economic boost to the City.
A public exhibition will be held at the
Elim Church Centre, Exeter Road, Selly Oak
on the following days:
Friday 14th December 2012
1.30pm to 7.00pm
Saturday 15th December 2012
10.00am to 2.00pm
This is your chance to speak to team
members and find out more about
the newly revised plans.
If you wish to discuss any aspects of the plans, please
contact Tess Randles on freephone: 0800 975 5299
or visit www.sellyoak-regeneration.co.uk
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Sketch of retail shops area
Sketch of the Life Sciences
campus viewed from
New Fosse Way
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2. New regeneration plans
Regeneration
Site plan
What’s changed?
Developer Land Securities and Sainsbury’s have refreshed their
proposals to regenerate the former Battery Park site.
Features and benefits
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Improved local economy
Around 2,700 much-needed jobs will be
created, with up to 230 of these being full
and part-time jobs at the new Sainsbury’s
store. These are in addition to the jobs
currently taken up at the existing Sainsbury’s
in Selly Oak and colleagues will have the
opportunity to transfer to the new store.
Worcester and Birmingham Canal
Covering about a third of the site and conveniently located near the QE Hospital and Birmingham
University Medical School, the Life Sciences campus will be a centre of research excellence, which
will create jobs and be one of six of the City’s key employment zones.
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A new bridge to enable pedestrians
and cyclists to cross over the existing
Worcester and Birmingham canal linking
the Bristol Road to the shopping area
New 400-bed student accommodation
by the canal
A new pedestrian ‘Greenway’ linking
to Selly Oak Park
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A new 80,000 sq ft (7,432 sq m) Sainsbury’s
foodstore to replace the existing store on
Chapel Lane
An eight-pump petrol filling station
Over 1,700 surface use, undercroft
and multi-storey car parking spaces
A landscaped square between Bristol Road
and the Worcester and Birmingham canal
A range of shops
The regeneration plans will revitalise the area and bring the
following benefits:
Selly Oak
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Recreaction
Ground
Library
The site will be transformed providing the following key elements:
Please let
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your views
We would like to know what you think of the revised
proposals before a planning application is submitted to
Birmingham City Council.
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Overall, the derelict, former industrial and landfill site will still be transformed into a high-quality,
modern mixed-use development and gateway to Birmingham. However, the updated regeneration
proposals will now accommodate a Life Sciences campus.
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Prior to building starting, the site will be
completely cleaned-up after years of use
for industry and landfill. New trees will be
introduced on areas of open space around
the Life Sciences campus, which will have a
landscaped courtyard at its core.
The proposals include bringing forward
road improvements to the highways
network around the ‘Triangle’ site before
the development is completed.
Initial works will include the enhancement
to the turn-off onto Gibbins Road and work
on Chapel Lane.
These works would not only minimise
disruption to the highways but make significant
improvement to the local road network.
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Revised regeneration plans for Selly Oak
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If the proposal is approved, the ‘Triangle’ site where the existing Sainsbury’s is located, will be reused or
redeveloped once highways improvements are completed and the new Sainsbury’s store has opened.
Improved highways and
pedestrian routes
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Retail units
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Sketch of Life Sciences Park
Petrol station
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Pedestrian walkway through
to Selly Oak Park
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Pedestrian and cycle route
from QE Hospital & University
to Sainsbury’s & shops
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Pedestrian and cycle route
from QE Hospital & University
to the canal
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Canalside ‘square’ with new
pedestrian bridge link to
Selly Oak High Street
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Pedestrian greenway
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Life Sciences campus buildings
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Restaurants, cafés and bars
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Student accommodation
Multi-storey car park for the
Life Science campus, tucked
into the landscape
Sketch of canalside square
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