Developer Stoford has submitted a planning application for the BBC’s new Birmingham home at the historic Typhoo Building in Digbeth.

Plans are for the corporation to move from its current address at The Mailbox to the new custom built centre in 2025.

The developers Stoford aim to repurpose the Bordesley Street landmark and aims to deliver one of Birmingham’s first net zero carbon office buildings.

The new development will utilise the vast majority of its existing facades and structures thereby avoiding substantial carbon emissions.

The new office buildings in Typhoo Wharf will house numerous BBC editorial teams which includes BBC Asian Network, BBC Newsbeat, The Archers and BBC Radio WM.

Grant Associates who are working alongside Storford is designing the landscape, and will create a new canalside quarter centred on the canal which used to bring tea in and out of the original Typhoo building.

The new public square will be delivered in time for the first BBC staff to move in 2026.

Gerard Ludlow, Director at Stoford, said: “Typhoo Wharf is a significant opportunity, which will not only catalyse reinvigoration of the wider area, but will also help to kick start further private and public-sector investment into Digbeth’s built environment and transport connections.

“Central to our Typhoo scheme is the commitment to conserving the historic building, which dates back to 1929 but has been left empty for decades.

“The BBC’s new home will be instantly recognisable to everyone who travels into Birmingham on HS2, the tram, or into our existing railway stations.”

Over the next 10 years, Stoford plans to deliver up to 800,000 sq ft of new residential, hospitality & office accommodation around the new BBC.

The wider scheme will see more than 10 acres of underutilised land around Typhoo Wharf and the adjoining canal basin transformed into a new mixed-use neighbourhood characterised by attractive public spaces and open thoroughfares.
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