First residential building completed at Station Quarter
A six-storey apartment building on Telford’s £200m Station Quarter redevelopment is complete and ready for residents, bosses at Telford & Wrekin Council have confirmed.
The 84 apartments which make up Denmark House are the first residential homes to be built in Telford’s town centre since the new town was officially created in 1963, with a further 105 homes also nearing completion on the site.
Thew £45m Denmark House is the second building to be completed on Telford’s flagship Station Quarter scheme, a West Midlands Combined Authority-backed regeneration project built on a brownfield site which was once home to several 1980’s-era office blocks in Telford town centre.
Last year, work was completed on the The Quad, a 38,000 sq ft skills and enterprise building which is now home to Harper Adams University, Telford College and a small business incubator unit.
A 142-room Hampton by Hilton hotel is being built on the site of a former HMRC office block, and a sixth-form centre for Telford College built in former council offices at Addenbrook House is also nearing completion, with the project expected to be fully signed off by 2028.
Telford’s Station Quarter development, taking shape in May 2026. Credit: Mike Sheridan/Place Midlands
Denmark House was handed over by contractors Bowmer + Kirkland this week, ready to be operated by council-owned housing company Nuplace. Residential developer Lovell is currently building out the remainder of homes on the scheme.
Ryan Edson, Bowmer + Kirkland Project Manager, said: “Denmark House has been a pleasure to deliver on behalf of Nuplace and Telford & Wrekin Council, to see this former brownfield field site transformed in a relatively short space of time into premium apartments, is fantastic.
“During the project, our team generated £2.6 million in social value, including the engagement of 23 apprentices and three T Level students. We also made charitable donations, and notably, 48% of the workforce lived within a 20-mile radius of the site.”
Telford & Wrekin Council says the development will bring premium living to Telford’s town centre, as well as addressing the area’s housing needs, with completion described as a “monumental” moment for the town by deputy leader, Cllr Richard Overton.
“We’re thrilled to see the project completed as part of our vision to create vibrant residential spaces which can become homes for life for residents and make Telford a very attractive place to live and work. It’s all part of our vision to create a better Borough,” he said.
Six-storey Denmark House contains 84 build-to-rent apartments. Credit: Mike Sheridan/Place Midlands
The site was home to three former blocks occupied by HMRC prior to 2018, Reynolds House, Boyd House and Boyd 2, which was home to the UK’s tax collection computing network.
The computer halls at Boyd were pulled down in 2018, following shortly by the largely unloved glass-walled Reynolds House, with the prominent town centre plot laying dormant until outline planning approval for the Station Quarter scheme was granted by Telford & Wrekin Council in 2022. Demolition work on a number of former office buildings began in 2023.
The project was backed by £4.725m of grant funding from West Midlands Combined Authority, awarded in December 2024 to support further remediation work on the site.
Richard Parker, Mayor of the West Midlands, said: “Station Quarter is exactly the kind of scheme I want to back, homes in a town centre done properly.
“Telford and Wrekin have done something here worth recognising. This is what happens when councils are ambitious about housing and have the backing to make it happen.
“Housing gives people the platform to get on with their lives and are a driver of growth. That is why we are putting money behind schemes like this one across the region.”
