News - Midlands
Brum hits MIPIM running with campus announcement
University College Birmingham (UCB) plans to build a brand new campus on 4 acres on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter, delegates to MIPIM 2010, the global property conference in Cannes, were told today. Councillor Mike Whitby, leader of Birmingham City Council, made the announcement as one of a series of previews of new schemes scheduled for the next ten years. “The plans will be presented to the College board later this month, and such is the interest in what we are doing in Birmingham that over 190 firms of architects in the UK, Europe and the US have already registered an interest in working with us,” he said. For more from Insider's correspondent at MIPIM, Neil Tague, click here.