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SpringUR - Spring aims £50M Scheme at Heart of Mere Green

One of the Midlands’s best-known developers has unveiled plans for a £50 million regeneration scheme, to transform the heart of a Birmingham suburb near Sutton Coldfield.
SpringUR, Castlemore Securities’ urban regeneration arm, has just submitted plans to Birmingham City Council, which will revitalise the centre of Mere Green creating a new vibrancy in the community.
Since acquiring the three acre site for around £11 million last year from Municipal Charities, the Castlemore and SpringUR team have joined forces to create a blueprint that delivers a niche mixed use offering, bringing the best of both worlds together from a retail and residential perspective.
Central to the Mere Green development is a new ‘Village Square’, which will be landscaped and surrounded by boutique style shops, restaurants and cafés. These will be approached via a series of interconnecting walkways, ensuring a safe and secure environment with improved pedestrian links into the new retail area.
The proposals will provide 152 one and two bedroom apartments, including a range of duplex corner units, which have been incorporated into the scheme’s upper levels over three storeys. Designed to create a new relaxing lifestyle environment for residents, the apartments benefit from a private landscaped courtyard.
Whilst most of the retail units which front the development are designed for the smaller, independent retailers, the larger units are likely to be of interest to a number of select high street names, such as M&S Food.
The site already benefits from being adjacent to Sainsbury’s and incorporates a stylish new Loch Fyne fish and seafood restaurant, located in the recently refurbished Grade II-listed former school house.
Commenting, SpringUR planning director Keith Fenwick said: “Our experience in both residential development and mixed use regeneration schemes means that we have been able to put forward these innovative plans for Mere Green and address all market needs.
“We’re totally confident that this development works from both a retail and residential perspective and reflects the combined expertise of Castlemore with Spring UR. Getting the ground floor retail scheme to work in terms of prospective retailers was a key driver, in addition to overcoming the services and waste requirements".
“The early appointment of Manchester based Livingcity Asset Management from day one, has also ensured that all management aspects of the development hang together in an integrated way and has provided the platform for the residential scheme. Being able to produce plans which work from every aspect is something we’re all really proud of, and we’re looking to establish this part of Mere Green as a safe, healthy and inclusive new neighbourhood”, he added.
SpringUR has already carried out extensive public consultation on its proposals and exhibited a 3D model of the scheme, designed by Kinetic Architects from Birmingham.
Brett Lovett, architectural director of SpringUR, and a local resident himself, says the response has been generally positive. “This is the first SpringUR scheme to make planning since the company was launched some 18 months ago, so it’s been really important to get everything right from the outset and ensure that the proposals are sensitive to the needs and desires of residents.
“Our proposals focus on maintaining the character and identity of Mere Green, yet at the same time create a welcoming new environment for residents, business and visitors. As a local resident myself I have a personal interest in developing a scheme that we all want to be associated with, both now and in the future,” he said.
The planning application is expected to be determined within a 13-week timescale, with work scheduled to commence early next year and completion in 2010.

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