Major developments in Brum

East Birmingham's Tyseley Environmental and Enterprise District (TEED for short) has ambitious plans to become the region’s premium Green innovation Quarter. Becoming a centre of excellence for materials recycling, housing retrofit, advanced manufacturing, clean waste energy, and circular economy development and research.  

With a genesis fuelled in the furnaces and fires of the industrial revolution, Tyseley has a proud legacy of industrial innovation, making international waves literally by the development of the first transatlantic cable, and has continued to remain in its long tradition at the forefront of progress as an international powerhouse of materials and technological innovation that continues to have revolutionary impacts leading to worldwide societal progress and change. 

The district lies at the beating hub of the UKs transportation network, and has all the ingredients with its locational advantages, and its pioneering work through its emerging green energy and waste business eco system for accelerated growth, and things are only just get started. 

With the district already boasting the UK's first hydrogen refuelling station, the Birmingham Energy Innovation Centre, and the development of the National Centre for Decarbonisation of Heat (a £20 million investment by the University of Birmingham). The Stage is set for transformational  infrastructure, service and environmental improvements across the district as part of an integrated vision and inward investment   growth philosophy which is intended to connect and attract new and growing businesses in the Energy, Research, Circular Economy, and functional wider economy sectors wishing to be part of and benefit from a rapidly growing and  symbiotic learning, skills, and innovation business ecosystem as part of a share learning partnership,  and providing meaningful careers, jobs, training, and skills opportunities for local people as part of a model of inclusive growth. 

The vision supports the development of a Green Skills Training Academy, learning space, labs, and start up mentoring and incubation spaces to equip the next generation with the skills and knowledge to make a sustainable tomorrow. 

The vision also supports a new business quarter, and associated key worker housing and student accommodation as part of a true industrial liveable and sustainable neighbourhood model where businesses and homes alike  would benefit from an onsite district heat networks, and a localised smart energy grids offering cheaper power and electricity, and on site urban food park as part of the visions wider circular economy philosophy and its ambitions for the site to host a National Centre  for Advanced Recycling and the Circular Economy alongside its other ground breaking initiatives.  

It intends to build on the pioneering work of businesses already located in the district such as Ammogen’s Ammonia cracker with other hydrogen research initiatives such as with proposals for a hydrogen train demonstrator, and improving connections and celebrating its heritage by better integration with Tyseley Locomotive works, which whilst also being a nod to the importance of Tyseley's industrial past is also still a beating hub nationally for the repair and testing of heritage railway engines. 

The Locomotive works also wish to show case the old with the new and become a training centre for rail engineering and a research centre for sustainable and efficient heritage fuel given the importance of heritage rail to the wider national tourist economy.

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