Planned £30m paper firm expansion set for approval

The proposals are set to cost £30 million

Plans to expand a family business in Wolverhampton which manufactures kitchen and toilet roll are set to be approved.

Task Consumer Products, in Stafford Road, Fordhouses, has applied for permission for a £30m plan to build an extra works base on land next to its site, formerly occupied by automotive manufacturer Fablink.

The company currently has 128 full-time employees, with an extra 50 full-time jobs expected to be created under the plans.

Councillors are being recommended to approve the proposals at a meeting on Tuesday.

The plans, put forward by Task Consumer Products, are to be decided on Tuesday

However, the development will mean the loss of part of a Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation (SLINC).

Established in 2007, Task has a manufacturing capacity of more than 100,000 tonnes per year.

Planning bosses at Wolverhampton City Council have been recommended to approve the proposals subject to a compensation payment of £200,000 for the loss of part of the SLINC, to be spent on improvements to Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve.

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