Fire-ravaged Bloxwich pub to be demolished
The former Bulls Head pub in Bloxwich has had the final nail in its coffin after planning chiefs approved plans to have the building demolished.
The vacant pub will be replaced by 14 supported living apartments.
It has been shut since 2007 and was devastated by an arson attack in 2011.
At a planning committee meeting, councillors unanimously approved the plans, which the committee's chairman councillor Garry Perry said 'made sense'.
Councillors raised concerns over the type of people who would be living there given that it would not be a care facility, but these were addressed by the applicant on the night, Bromford Developments.
Councillor Perry said: "I think given the condition of that building after the arson attack it just makes sense to get it developed while we have the opportunity."
The pub's roof was destroyed in a suspected arson attack which caused part of the first floor and interior walls to collapse back in 2011.
For a period, it was poised to be taken over by JD Wetherspoon. There were also plans to turn the site into a supermarket which never materialised.
