Plans for a 42-storey skyscraper in Birmingham city centre have been recommended for refusal over heritage concerns.
The proposal, submitted to Birmingham City Council, would see a tower developed on a Grade-II listed building to provide 300 dwellings, an internal viewing platform and 300 bike spaces.
The proposed site at 80 Broad Street is a former historic women and children’s hospital, and was most recently a restaurant and nightclub. It has been vacant for several years.
Historic England, the Victorian Society, the Council for British Archaeology, Birmingham Civic Society and Historic Buildings and Places all objected to the plans over heritage harm concerns.
A council report also identifies heritage harm to the setting of the Grade-II listed building next door.
It concludes that the public benefits of the scheme would not outweigh the ‘substantial’ identified harm to the two listed buildings.
Birmingham’s planning committee will consider the application on 25 April.
