Future of historic Baggeridge Brickworks site looks picture perfect under plans
This is the first glimpse of what a new estate earmarked for the site of a historic brickworks will look like.
Modern architecture and tree-lined streets will feature in the transformation of the former Baggeridge Brickworks in Gospel End, Sedgley.
In total 170 homes will be built on the site, off Fir Street, under detailed plans brought before South Staffordshire Council.
Outline plans for the scheme were first turned down by South Staffordshire Council planners who feared it would be too big for the site.
Now developers David Wilson Homes and Weinerberger have showcased their vision for the future of the site.
It has emerged that around 43 per cent of the homes to be built on site will have four or more bedrooms.
But in planning documents they say they do propose for 30 per cent of the total number of properties to be 'affordable' homes.
In addition 12 craft workshops will be built next to the main chimney sack, which is to be retained as part of the redevelopment, alongside a car park.
Officials say the'craft village' will provide employment.
A community centre will also be built and there are plans for a nursing home, subject to separate planning permission. There will also be a community garden, a new link road from the A463 to reduce traffic and improvements to walkways into Gospel End village. David Wilson Homes Mercia planning manager, Jon Rowson, said "
Subject to planning we hope to begin initial highway works in March and construction in July." It was once part of the Earl of Dudley's Baggeridge Colliery where bricks were made as a sideline to mining operations. Brickmaking dates back more than 80 years at the site. The company was taken over by Austrian firm Weinerberger in 2008.
