Landmark apartments planned for disused Wolverhampton site
A "landmark" 10-storey apartment block, offering more than 100 new homes, could be built near one of the main routes through Bilston.
The land between the Black Country Route and Railway Drive, just off the Oxford Street island, has stood empty for years. Attempts have been made since the 1980s to bring it back into use but nothing has yet come to fruition.
The project is one of a number in the pipeline for the area with more than 600 homes and a new school set to be built as part of the Bilston Urban Village.
Property Lounge Partners, based on the Tettenhall Road in Wolverhampton is behind the latest plans which would see 107 two-bedroom apartments built.
Planning documents state the properties would have balconies while car parking would be provided with access off Railway Drive.
A report prepared as part of a planning application states: "The site has little development adjacent which might set any appropriate context for scale and appearance and therefore affords the opportunity to provide a landmark building of high quality signifying a prominent gateway building to Bilston town centre."
Wolverhampton Council planning bosses are expected to decide by March whether the scheme can go ahead.
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