Tesco Birmingham Library - every little helps
Birmingham City Council's Planning Committee has approved the first stage in the development of a Tesco supermarket adjacent to Springhill Library on the site of the former Brookfields Shopping Precinct. This first stage is the approval of the "Erection of glazed link between library and proposed Tesco store, erection of new external lift to library and formation of new entrance within North West elevation".
The overall scheme, costing approximately £50 million will include eight shops together with offices and homes with the Tesco store connected to the library with a glazed link.
The library was designed by Birmingham architects, Martin and Chamberlain and opened on January 7th 1893 in red brick and terracotta similar to other municipal buildings of the period.
The library has survived into the present after a plan in the early 1970s to demolish it as part of the Middle Ring Road development and the Middleway was diverted to keep the building intact. Today the library stands alone after the local shopping precinct was demolished.
Further information can be found on Birmingham City Council's website: History of Spring Hill Library
The overall scheme, costing approximately £50 million will include eight shops together with offices and homes with the Tesco store connected to the library with a glazed link.
The store will have a built-in public library because the only building left standing - and still open for business -- on the cleared land is one of the city's lesser-known architectural gems. Spring Hill Library opened in 1893 and is built of terracotta Victorian stone with a magnificent clock tower and is a Grade II listed building.
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The library was designed by Birmingham architects, Martin and Chamberlain and opened on January 7th 1893 in red brick and terracotta similar to other municipal buildings of the period.
Reproduced from Birmingham City Council, http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=15511&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=260
The library has survived into the present after a plan in the early 1970s to demolish it as part of the Middle Ring Road development and the Middleway was diverted to keep the building intact. Today the library stands alone after the local shopping precinct was demolished.
Reproduced from Birmingham City Council, http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=15511&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=260
Reproduced from Birmingham City Council, http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=15511&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=260
Further information can be found on Birmingham City Council's website: History of Spring Hill Library
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