Biggest car park in Wolverhampton's city centre shuts for five months in £2m revamp
The biggest car park in Wolverhampton city centre closed today for five months while it undergoes a £2 million overhaul.
The council's 40-year-old Civic Centre car park has closed so essential repairs and maintenance can be carried out.
The bulk of the repairs will involve behind the scenes structural and engineering work.
Repairs need to be carried out to address concrete erosion and a fire safety sprinkler system will also be installed.
The car park, in Wulfruna Street, is due to reopen by the end of August.
The works had been timed to coincide with the £10.4m refurbishment of the neighbouring Civic and Wulfrun halls.
The authority is spending a total of £22m on a revamp of the Civic Centre offices and car park.
The revamp is part of a large-scale shake-up of the council's property portfolio, which will also see 16 of its buildings close and 600 extra staff relocate to the main city centre HQ.
Three floors of the Civic Centre will be refurbished as part of the scheme, which council bosses say is essential so that the building can remain operational.
