Demolition plan for empty Wolverhampton city centre shop units
An application to demolish a parade of empty former shops in Wolverhampton city centre has been made to the council.
The vacant retail units on Cleveland Street occupy the stretch between Cleveland Passage and Bell Street, with a total of seven shops earmarked for demolition. If approved, an application for a new development at the site will follow in spring 2023.
In a written statement to city planners, Mark McVicar, director of regeneration consultants Place Change Limited, said: “The proposed demolition is to facilitate the future redevelopment of the site as part of the council’s Future High Street Fund programme and to meet its obligations to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).
“The application is to demolish the vacant parade of shops, including the removal of the building foundations and – if discovered during works – any basement areas, although surveys have suggested there are no existing basements.
“Thereafter, the site will be appropriately backfilled and graded to tie in with adjoining footways/highways and the existing service yard level. All excess spoil and waste materials will also be removed.
“Following demolition works, temporary hoardings will be erected around the site to ensure its security in the interim period, pending the future redevelopment in approximately one year’s time,” he added.
