Property – Page 6

The latest planning applications for the Quarter

The latest planning applications are in and there are a few juicy ones. Click the planning application number links in the title and then click “view related documents” at the bottom: 2014/01487/PA Conversion to a mixed use building on Water St This looks to be a good example of what the JQ should do more…

New planning applications – Albion Street

This year for the blogs we are putting up the significant planning applications to inform residents. We won’t bother with the more minor things like replacement windows, BT boxes etc as the Jewellery Quarter Development Trust (JQDT) looks at these (of which the JQNF is a member), and residents can comment on these individually. We…

Does the JQ need another secondary school?

Shortly before Christmas signs appeared on lampposts on Albion Street advertising the proposal to turn St George’s Court office building into a new secondary school; the fourth in the successful model of Perry Beeches. Perry Beeches II on Newhall St was and is warmly welcomed by Jewellery Quarter residents and businesses, and has an important…

Fancy getting involved in the future of the Jewellery Quarter?

The Jewellery Quarter is entering an exciting phase and you can play a part in it. The Localism Act of Parliament (stay with us) gives communities the power to set the rules for planning & development in their area by creating a NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN. It means that old rules can be shaken up, new rules…

Show us your assets!

What would you save in the Jewellery Quarter for the community? The Post Office? The Lord Clifden? The cemeteries? Under new Localism laws the local community can apply to designate a building or piece of land as an ‘Asset of Community Value’. This is where you come in – to help us register them with…

Who Lives in a House Like This? It’s over to you…

The Jewellery Quarter is a housing estate. Well, it was when it was first developed, but then shiny precious things started to be made in the yards of those houses and Hockley changed forever. It’s over 100 years since new houses were built in the Jewellery Quarter. Now we have a few being built behind…

Who Cares For the Jewellery Quarter?

Legge Lane Dereliction Sun 3rd March 2013

Well, we do for a start. But it appears that some of its owners don’t. Empty buildings are the curse of the JQ and dilapidated ones are the boil on the witch’s nose. The Legge Lane area is probably the most blighted part of the JQ and some its landowners don’t seem to be bothered. …

IF THE JQ DID FAMILY HOUSING… this is your chance to shape the JQ, help needed now.

This is a call to arms (a little dramatic, but bear with…). You, we, the JQ residents have a chance here and now to spend a small amount of time commenting on how you would like to see a little corner of the JQ turned into family housing. Or maybe you think it shouldn’t be…

Have your say on housing in the JQ – online and face-to-face!

As some of you may be aware we have been doing some preliminary work around a family housing and self-build design project in the Jewellery Quarter as part of a Design Your Neighbourhood programme after JQNF won funding from Design Council / CABE. Our design partner MADE have teamed up a group of MADEGrads with support from the…

Have Your Say… Family Housing in the JQ

Towards the end of 2012, the JQNF secured a grant from urban design watchdog CABE to help develop proposals for family housing in the quarter. That grant is being spent here in the JQ at MADE on Newhall Square, our local urban design organisation. It ties in neatly with the results from last year’s open…