New home on way for Carvers' Wolverhampton gas tanks
The relocation of potentially explosive gas tanks from Carvers' Building Supplies in Wolverhampton to a new site today moved closer to reality.
A move to a new site in South Staffordshire was recommended for approval.
Company bosses want the move to end a deadlock preventing the canalside area of the city centre from being redeveloped.
The liquid petroleum gas tanks have been stored legally at Carvers, in Littles Lane, for many years but plans to build a fourth block of the £40 million Victoria Hall student village cannot proceed while they are there because the site is within a "blast zone".
The Health and Safety Executive raised objections to the green light being given for the creation of the student village at all and the resulting case went all the way to the Supreme Court.
If the council revoked planning permission for the unbuilt block it would have resulted in a compensation claim of at least £200,000.
The new site will be off Gravelly Way in Four Ashes.
South Staffordshire Council will meet next Tuesday, February 26, to decide on the plan but officers are recommending it for approval.
