Plan for affordable homes redrawn for third time

A second-hand car dealership, repair shop, garages and factories would be demolished to make way for the development if the scheme is approved

A plan to build more than 50 new homes in Bilston has been redrawn again.

Morro Partnerships revealed plans to knock down dilapidated units in Hatton Street and Greenway Road off Salop Street and replace them with 51 affordable houses more than 12 months ago.

The plans were put forward last July with 51 homes, revised again this July with an increased 56 properties, but have now been redrawn again to include 54 homes.

Most of the units on the land, which are home to a second-hand car dealership, repair shop, garages and factories, would all be demolished and replaced with a mix of two and three-bed homes.

The planning application from July said the extra homes, which also included a bigger share of two-bed homes, had been developed following talks with the council over the previous 12 months.

A letter from Urbanissta on behalf of the developer, included with the application, said the plans would now be the "final full resubmission".

A statement included with the application said building homes would make efficient use of an "underutilised" commercial site during a time of "pressing need for the city".

The land has long been earmarked as a site for new housing and has appeared in council blueprints for the past two decades.

The site is also included in the council's Local Plan, which sets out where new homes will be built across Bilston and Wolverhampton up to 2042.

This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service which covers councils and other public service organisations.