DemoDev

Placing data at the core of urban innovation to examine how landowners can make the best use of their portfolio for their own benefit and the benefit of the community.

The DemoDev project is currently been running in collaboration with Ordnance Survey, Land Registry and Birmingham City Council. After responding to a brief to create data led solutions which help combat the housing crisis.

We are currently experimenting and exploring the best way to engage local communities with housing issues and the decision making process. By approaching the housing crisis in a holistic manner there lies the opportunity to create a whole new system: from land identification and planning approval to home design and ultimate construction.

DemoDev will harness the power of Land Registry and Ordnance Survey data to unlock underused land and turn it into open designed, sustainable, adaptable homes. Homes which are in areas people want to live in, which can be self built and can grow and change as their owners lives evolve. A platform to dramatically lower the barriers of custom build housing.

News

Community Response to Birmingham’s Housing Crisis

August 15, 2017 | Andy Reeve

The idea of Community Led Housing is starting to gain more and more momentum at the moment with national coverage of CLTs in the Big Issue and Channel 4’s look at the housing crisis. On the 2nd of August we…

More Car Parks Than Venice

August 22, 2016 | Andy Reeve

Birmingham City Council have now submitted their first planning application under number, 2016/06762/PA, in respect of the demolition of the markets. It’s a very basic application which talks about the buildings to be demolished and a few surveys to make…

Smithfield Masterplan Consultation

May 9, 2016 | Andy Reeve

The Smithfield Masterplan will be one of the key redevelopments for the city and has the opportunity to become a gateway to the south of the city centre and open up Digbeth to more people, businesses and housing. As the…

How do we build the communities of the future?

June 22, 2015 | Andy Reeve

Housing, and the housing crisis, is starting to get more airtime in the UK. For the first time in a long time there were actually housing based propositions included in major parties election manifestos. They weren’t particularly good but at…

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