A vital local housing and business project is under threat. After ten years of dedicated effort to create affordable, community-led housing, Stirchley Co-operative Development is facing an unfair financial demand that could jeopardise its future. What is at stake GreenSquareAccord (GSA), the housing association managing the construction project, is attempting to pass over £2 million […]
A Birmingham community group is being asked to foot the bill for a large housing association’s £2.3m construction failures. GreenSquareAccord (GSA) is trying to pass over two million pounds of cost overruns, from £10.68m to £12.57m, from a delayed construction project they manage onto a small community group, leaving member businesses facing insolvency and residents […]
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Stirchley Community Plan Launch
A community plan for more affordable homesand shared spaces in Stirchley In Autumn 2025 we worked together with Unit38 Architects and members of the local community to generate a Community Plan for the brownfield site next to Aldi. We have now launched a mini site plan.stirchley.coop to show the results of this planning process and […]
GreenSquareAccord decides to become landlord of Stirchley Community Project Birmingham, UK – 15th March 2026 On Thursday 12th March, GreenSquareAccord (GSA) leadership informed Stirchley Co-operative Development (SCD) that it intends to retain ownership of the nearly completed and much-delayed building, jeopardising a project developed by and funded for local residents and workers. SCD believes that […]
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Registered Provider Announcement
We are excited to announce that Stirchley Co-operative Development (SCD) has been awarded Registered Provider (RP) status by the The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH). This is a huge milestone in our progression as a co-operative which we have been working towards over the past few years. Being a Registered Provider is very important as […]
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2025 Update
🎄Seasons greetings to all in Stirchley 🎄 We want to provide some updates about progress on our construction site. Things have been progressing swiftly this year, though we have had a some setbacks with utilities suppliers which have slowed down our construction team a little bit. We hope to get the keys in late January […]
We want to create a community-led plan for more affordable, ecological co-operative housing, and retail or leisure on the proposed McDonalds site in Stirchley, Birmingham. Join us for a second meeting where we will discuss massing and building types for the site. This will be a hands on session where participants will be able to […]
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Stirchley Community Plan
CREATING A COMMUNITY PLAN FOR STIRCHLEY: LEARNING FROM CATALAN CO-OPERATIVES We want to create a community-led plan for more affordable, ecological co-operative housing, and retail or leisure on the proposed McDonald’s site in Stirchley, Birmingham. In this session we will hear from Nina Turull Puig a project engineer from Sostre Civic Co-operative in Barcelona. Sostre […]
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Topping Out Ceremony 28 Feb 2025
Press release by GSA: Construction completed on highest point of 35ft co-operative development in Stirchley A major milestone has been reached by our in-house construction team at the community-owned Stirchley Co-operative building. This achievement was marked with a visit from Selly Oak MP, Al Carns and West Midlands Mayor Richard Parker who recently took part […]
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Ceilidh Fundraiser – April 26th
It’s happening! Stirchley Co-operative Development (SCD) and ARTEFACT warmly invite you to a ceilidh and dance — featuring The Pied Piper Band, Edinburgh’s all-trans, fashion-forward ceilidh band — for a night at The Old Print Works in Balsall Heath. For those of you who don’t know, this is the first of our Construction Parties — […]