Green light for urban farm proposal

A plan to convert the upper floors of a Birmingham multi-storey car park into an urban farm have been approved.

Sustainable food producer Slow Food Birmingham will redevelop levels five and six of the Vyse Street car park in the Jewellery Quarter. Vegetable plots, greenhouses and gardens will take up the space, with a focus on community use as well as food production.

Slow Food plans to collect rainfall to water plants and cover flat spaces on the top floor with wind turbines.

The scheme has...

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