Soho Loop

Location: Soho Loop, Birmingham
Client: Galliard Homes
Architect: Tooley Foster
Services: RIBA Stage 3 to 6

The Soho Loop site is bounded by the Main Line and Old Main Line canals and is opposite Birmingham City Hospital. A popular recreational area, this area of the canal is undergoing investment, with new towpath resurfacing, lighting and tree planting in the pipeline. Soho Wharf is a £165 million urban regeneration scheme at the site comprising 102 two and three-bedroom townhouses and 650 one and two-bedroom apartments, 300 parking spaces and more than 10,000 sq ft of commercial space, creating a canal-side hub.

The landscape covers almost 40 per cent of the site, there are public parks, play areas, private gardens and communal spaces. On the canalside, there is a mooring point with a stepped garden area full of grasses and perennials, the new bridge provides access to the Main Line Canal.