{"id":63274,"date":"2025-04-30T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/63274\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:40:13","slug":"major-plans-for-birminghams-landmark-hs2-station-take-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/63274\/","title":{"rendered":"Major plans for Birmingham\u2019s \u2018landmark\u2019 HS2 station take step forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plans for the revised design of Birmingham\u2019s new flagship high speed railway station have been recommended for approval.<\/p>\n

Those behind the proposals for Curzon Street Station, the city centre terminus of the controversial HS2<\/a> line, previously said the design changes would help to \u201cfuture proof\u201d the station.<\/p>\n

They include a change in material from timber to aluminium within the station roof due to recently tightened fire standards while the eastern concourse has also been replanned.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: <\/b>HS2 \u2018reset\u2019 explained – impact on Birmingham, potential delays and \u2018serious challenges’<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Construction work on the station began in January last year amid hope it would provide a huge economic boost and serve as a symbol of the city\u2019s ambition<\/p>\n

But as \u201cserious challenges\u201d continue to plague the HS2 project, the new CEO recently confirmed that a \u201creset of the programme\u201d will take place<\/a> and involve a review of the project\u2019s cost and schedule.<\/p>\n

Despite uncertainty over when exactly the first trains will run between Birmingham<\/a> and London, progress is being made on the design of Curzon Street Station.<\/p>\n

Consent for the station, based on an outline scheme design, was secured in 2020 from Birmingham City Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n

HS2’s construction partner Mace Dragados Joint Venture would later reveal proposed design \u201crefinements\u201d last year in September before a planning application was submitted.<\/p>\n

\"HS2<\/p>\n

HS2 Curzon Street station in Birmingham -Credit:andrewhendry.com<\/p>\n

A council officer\u2019s report, published ahead of a planning committee meeting next week, has now recommended the redesign for approval.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am satisfied that the revised design and subsequent external appearance of the proposed station building would still be a world class 21st century landmark building,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n

It went on to say that the station would display \u201chigh quality architecture and provide a world class passenger experience\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is considered that the impact on the local amenity, heritage assets and surrounding highways would not be any more significant than what was envisaged in 2020,\u201d the report continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost importantly, the station would contribute to maximising the regeneration and development potential of HS2 in the city centre.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: <\/b>Birmingham council tenants \u2018let down\u2019 as 40,000 bathroom and kitchen replacements needed<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe HS2 development will help to create more jobs and deliver new homes.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also said a combination of factors were involved within the redesign, including value for money, technical complexities, engineering constraints and changes to standards and regulations.<\/p>\n

On the HS2 reset, CEO Mark Wild said recently: \u201cThis is of a scale never done before \u2013 the last mainline terminus we built was 1899 in Marylebone.<\/p>\n

\u201cTruth is also the construction has been harder than we would have thought so we\u2019ve lost ground in construction.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo a combination of factors of getting a little bit behind and also the complexity to come means we need to reset the programme.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/p>\n

Mark Wild, the CEO of HS2 Ltd, at the Curzon Street construction site on April 3 -Credit:Alexander Brock<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good news is that this is all completely solvable and I\u2019m very, very confident,\u201d he added. \u201cBut you get one chance to reset it to give people confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The HS2 Curzon Street Station plans will be considered by the council\u2019s planning committee on Thursday, May 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans for the revised design of Birmingham\u2019s new flagship high speed railway station have been recommended for approval.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,984,748,32623,393,4884,32624,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-63274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-council","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-curzon-street-station","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-station-building","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114427673007120224","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63274","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=63274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}