Green light for new homes at Wolverhampton pubs site
Almost 100 new homes will be built on the sites of two former pubs and a factory in Wolverhampton after the plans were given the go-ahead.
Councillors waved through applications to demolish the empty Rough Hills Tavern in Rooker Avenue, in Parkfields, and the former Linthouse Inn in Wednesfield at a meeting of the city council's planning committee.
They held no discussion at all on the proposals for 15 properties on the Parkfields site, which includes four three bedroom houses and 11 two bedroom homes.
Eight houses would front on to Rooker Avenue, with the rest on either side of a new cul-de-sac at right angles to the main road. At the former Linthouse Inn, six homes will front onto Linthouse Lane and another six will be built be on Shardlow Road. All will be semi-detached in a plan passed without any debate by councillors.
There was also no comment on a request by Gunnebo to turn its former factory site in Worden Road, Wednesfield, into 69 new homes.
The security equipment maker, formerly Chubb Safes, has moved to other sites in Wednesfield and Willenhall as well as its head office at Pendeford Business Park following the collapse of the roof at the warehouse and factory last summer.
Its plans had originally been approved last December but the company had come back with a request that the council lift a condition requiring it to supply affordable housing, renewable energy and public art.
Gunnebo had said that the condition would mean the scheme was not financially viable. Fifty-two of the properties would be four-bedroom homes, while the remaining 17 would have three bedrooms. A bowling green and pavilion at the site would be kept.
