The detailed proposals for the Commonwealth Games athletes village are to be put under the microscope by planning chiefs for the first time.
Birmingham City Council's planning committee will meet on Thursday (September 13) to discuss the sprawling scheme to be built in Perry Barr.
It will be an initial opportunity for councillors to raise any concerns they may have with the project. They will not be making a final decision on the plans.
In particular the committee will be asked to consider five key issues; whether they meet the council's long-term development masterplan, the design and appearance, whether they provide privacy for future residents, whether enough parking is provided, and if they include enough affordable housing and open space.
The planning application was unveiled last month with more than a dozen CGI images showing how the Birmingham City University campus would be utterly transformed.
The village will accommodate up to 6,800 athletes and officials - 300 more than first estimated - during the 2022 competition.
Afterwards the development would be adapted into around 1,400 permanent homes kick-starting a housing regeneration in the wider Perry Barr area.
The vast majority of the new properties (1,072) will be flats and maisonettes. There will also be 79 houses and 268 extra care apartments.
Just under a quarter of the homes (24 per cent) will be allocated for affordable housing.
The scheme has been divided into 11 separate plots.
At its heart will be a six-storey community centre referred to in the plans as a Pavilion which will feature a café, community hall, crèche and changing facilities.
This will be beneath 28 apartments overlooking a Commonwealth Games park which forms the largest green open space in the development.
The scheme will include housing allocated for Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust, most of which is on the eastern side near to the Wellhead Lane boundary.
The tallest building in the development will be a 15-storey apartment block on the north west corner of the site which is currently occupied by Trucks Direct.
It will be one of three blocks on the plot - plot 10 - which will contain a substantial part of the housing with 239 units able to accommodate nearly 1,300 athletes during the games.
The largest section of housing sits to the south bordering the railway line.
It will accommodate the 268 extra care apartments, a restaurant, gym, village hall and shops.
In the south west corner will be the 'Station Plaza' plot which features a 14-storey 'marker' building serving as the main entrance to the village.
It is hoped the platform at Perry Barr railway station will be extended into this part of the site but that is not included in this particular proposal and will come forward in a separate application.
Overall the village plans contain 13,314sq ft of commercial space amounting to ten units which would be located at the Station Plaza, community centre, Trucks Direct and north east apartment block plots.
The Hare of the Dog pub on Franchise Street is to remain and be revitalised as a result of the development.
Cars would access the site primarily from two points off Wellhead Lane.
The first will be the priority junction with Franchise Street which is to be reinstated. The second will be further north off a new mini roundabout to be installed opposite the bus depot.
The apartment block in the north east corner, which would have its own car park, would also have its own dedicated access to Wellhead Lane.
The section of the A453 Aldridge Road, which currently dissects the site, would be closed to traffic and transformed into a Parkour play corridor including a number of leisure features such as a basketball court.
It would conjoin the main site with the Trucks Direct plot which would also have its own vehicle access on to the road linking the A34 Walsall Road with Aldridge Road.
That route, which currently sees traffic moving in one direction only, would be converted to two-way.
A total of 339 car parking spaces are proposed throughout the village.
Most, if not all, of the houses would have their own space while there would be a ratio of one space to every four apartments, including the extra care homes.
There will be an abundance of cycle spaces with at least one for every apartment.
A report for next week's meeting states: "This report is intended to give members an early opportunity to comment on this proposal in order for negotiations with the applicants to proceed with some certainty.
"Members should raise any issues they feel are particularly relevant; require amending, or any additional information that they may wish to be sought."
A public consultation is still on-going and people can submit their opinions on the athletes village plans up until September 13 by visiting the Planning Portal at Birmingham City Council's website and typing in the reference code 2018/06313/PA
