Edgbaston Tower Ballroom site moves toward 95 affordable homes

Birmingham City Council has signed a deal with Keon Homes to redevelop the former Tower Ballroom site at Edgbaston Reservoir for 95 affordable homes, moving a long-running regeneration proposal into delivery. The scheme will be brought forward with housing association Midland Heart and is planned to include a mix of one- and two-bedroom apartments alongside two-, three-, and four-bedroom family homes, with tenure split between social rent and shared ownership.

The plans extend beyond housing. The former Tower Ballroom site is intended to be recast around a fully accessible public walkway and square, opening up a more formal connection to the reservoir edge. A landscaped strip of at least 25 metres is also planned along the water, adding public realm and biodiversity improvements beside the local nature reserve.

A separate element of the wider proposal is the refurbishment of the Grade II listed Reservoir Lodge as a community hub, with communal space and meeting rooms for charities and local groups. That gives the scheme a heritage and civic component as well as a housing function, which is significant on a site that has sat at the centre of Edgbaston Reservoir regeneration discussions for years.

Construction is expected to start in early 2027, with the project forming part of Birmingham’s broader housing pipeline across key city sites. Midland Heart has also linked the development to its wider Birmingham investment programme and to the low-carbon lessons from its Project 80 homes, indicating that the Edgbaston scheme is being shaped as a larger-scale affordable development with a stronger energy-performance focus from the outset.