Former Springfield brewery's maintenance site to be transformed into homes
This is the site of a former Wolverhampton brewery which will soon be turned into more than 60 homes after planning chiefs backed the move.
The 64 properties will be constructed on the maintenance yard of the Grade II-listed Springfield Brewery, which first opened in 1874.
The adjacent site was run as a maintenance yard from 1895, with the whole site closed after years of decline in business in 1996.
The brewery was subsequently taken over by the University of Wolverhampton which opened a new campus there in 2014.
Now the maintenance site next to it is set to house 31 two-bedroom houses and 33 one or two-bedroom flats by developer Keon Homes Limited.
An arson-hit disused warehouse building will be demolished to make way for the homes but the boundary wall will be kept on the Cambridge Street site.
The whole site sits within the Springfield Conservation Area, and the Grade II-listed brewery gates remain after being refurbished.
Agents BM3 Architecture said: "The brewery went through a long period of decline from the 1960s, with partial demolition making way for a warehouse in the 1980s and brewing ceasing in 1996.
"The University of Wolverhampton purchased the derelict brewery site in 2014, and now houses the School of Architecture and Built Environment campus.
"The site is occupied by a two-storey late 19th century warehouse building which formed part of the former brewery maintenance operation."
Proposals for housing schemes on the site have previously been granted permission by Wolverhampton Council but have not materialised.
Planners said this development would help enhance the conservation area once completed and granted permission.
