Asking price for Wolverhampton's fire-ravaged Strykers slashed to £1m

Agents selling the two-acre site have dropped the price with the hope to entice developers.

The bulldozers moved in in January and the remains of the building were flattened for safety reasons.

Mark Tromans, partner at Michael Tromans, said: "The price is now £1 million and the owner is looking at all options for possible development.

"It is a two acre site and the owner is keeping his options open by investigating feasible opportunities for the land."

MP for Wolverhampton North East, Emma Reynolds, has now got involved, calling on the owner to hold talks with the city council.

She said: "The size of the land presents an ideal opportunity for a local business to develop the site and a great opportunity to provide jobs for local people. I would urge the site owners to engage with the city council to discuss possible development opportunities to ensure what has become a local eyesore is redeveloped at the earliest opportunity."

It was December last year when 100 firefighters fought the fire that ripped through the former bowling alley.

The entertainment venue, that had become a landmark on the corner of Shaw Road and Bushbury Lane, was left a shell following an arson attack just days before last Christmas.

Flames and ash filled the night sky with smoke seen from miles around. Such was the intensity of the fire Strykers, a regular haunt for many folk from the Black Country, collapsed.

In September this year, the land became a target for fly-tippers with those living nearby claiming it had attracted rats.

Despite a council tip being just yards away, piles of rubbish were dumped at the old entrance to Strykers.

Stephen Malcolm, aged 43, who lives on Bushbury Lane, opposite the former bowling alley said: "It needs developing and it needs to be done sooner rather than later. It makes the area look rundown and but for the KFC you would think that this area in Bushbury didn't exist.

"I grew up around here in the 1970s and there were houses there before it was Strykers and it felt much like a community, so I would like to see homes there.

"If not homes, then possibly a pub restaurant. The Island House on the corner doesn't help matters so if you have a pub that is open it just makes the area look better."