MURDOCH & PITMAN CHAMBERS

153-161 Corporation Street, Birmingham 

View the site map HERE.

PROJECT TEAM:

Partners: MP Devco Ltd (*Regal Property Group, Trigram Properties, Czero*)

Architects: BPN Architects, Donald Insall Associates

Operator: TBA

Finance: The Harrogate Group

Quantity Surveyor: Wakemans

Structural Engineer: CWA (New Build); Integral Engineering Design (Listed Build)

M&E: Halligan Consulting Engineers

Contractor: TBA

Party Wall & Rights to Light: Fulwood Surveying Services

Acoustic Engineer: Hoare Lea

Fire Engineer: Ashton Fire

Grant Funding: West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA)

Planning Consultant: Carney Sweeney

Planning Application Number(s): 2019/10362/PA, 2019/10409/PA

MURDOCH AND PITMAN CHAMBERS

Grade II listed 1890s Murdoch and Pitman Chambers is to form a 156-bed aparthotel scheme, with a restaurant/bar, gym, and meeting rooms.

Having started its life as a hotel and vegetarian restaurant, the building is once said to have hosted Indian independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.

The asset will be refurbished and converted into 28-bedrooms, along with a new viability-boosting, set-back cuboid-esque 11-storey offering 128-bedrooms to the site's constrained rear (below), separated by a glazed link - the part-demo of a rear four-storey wing of the Pitman Building will be undertaken beforehand.

The heritage building will receive new and improved shopfronts, with window frames and terracotta sculpture and dry rot repairs. All modern fittings will be removed and all original features – chimneypieces, cornices, doors, etc. – reinstated.

CGIs and massing images from BPN Architects; existing images from Google Maps.

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