£20 million plans to 'level up' Tipton by levelling old flats and shops revealed
Up to 65 new flats will be built in Tipton town centre as part of a £20 million regeneration project.
Sandwell Council was given £20m in ‘levelling up’ money from the Government to invest in regenerating Tipton town centre.
And the main plans are demolishing 70-year-old flats in Union Street in Tipton town centre to make way for up to 65 new flats.
But plans to breathe new life into many empty and run-down shops in the town centre have now been scrapped over rising costs.
Sandwell Council said the much-needed flats would address a chronic shortage of affordable housing and long waiting lists in Tipton and across Sandwell.
The existing block of 12 flats in Union Street, which dates back to the 1950s, would be demolished with the land and the adjacent Albion Street car park used to build a new three-to-four-storey block.
The locally listed but former and long-empty Conservative Club, which has now been vacant for some years, was recently bought by the council after its condition rapidly deteriorated following a number of break-ins.
