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Meanwhile, Birmingham City Council has confirmed a major change to the Smithfield project<\/a>, amid financial “pressures”.<\/p>\n

The scheme is set to transform the former wholesale market site into homes, retail and leisure space and a new market complex.<\/p>\n

But an outline business case document revealed changes to the proposed cultural offer, with the Art Shed building and Round House music venue to be incorporated into a single building rather than two separate structures as originally intended.<\/p>\n

The council said it was to reduce the need for funding, as requested by government-appointed commissioners<\/a> sent in to oversee the authority’s financial recovery after it effectively went bankrupt.<\/p>\n

The document stated commissioners did not support a funding ask of \u00a3209m linked to the proposal’s enterprise zone, and it had now been reduced to \u00a3172.8m.<\/p>\n

The council also confirmed Smithfield’s leisure offer was set to change and would no longer offer a “big-box style” leisure complex, including an urban adventure playground and digital immersive experience.<\/p>\n

“The leisure offer will now consist of two smaller leisure provisions,” the outline business case continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Birmingham City Council has confirmed a major change to the Smithfield project, amid financial “pressures”. The scheme…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-282628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114897188536320157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}