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Major plans for apartment blocks and a public plaza in Birmingham have been approved despite a “regrettable” impact.

Developers have been given permission to build 179 new homes across two sites on opposite sides of Great Hampton Row near the Jewellery Quarter .

Following the decision at Thursday's planning committee meeting, Mott Street Industrial Estate is set to be demolished to make way for a six-storey building with 124 apartments.

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On the other side of the road will be a four-storey building with 21 homes and a conversion of the Nightingale Works building.

A council officer’s report, published ahead of the meeting, identified numerous benefits the scheme could bring

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