Training centre demolition can go ahead - council

Demolition work to make way for new homes on the site of a former primary school and training centre in Wolverhampton can go ahead, council officials say.

Earlier this month plans for 150 affordable homes on the old Loxdale Primary School in Bilston and Stowheath Day Training Centre in East Park were scaled back to 89 after detailed investigations showed the full extent of the ground conditions.

Developers have now been told they can knock down buildings on the Stowheath site and do not need planning permission for demolition work.

City of Wolverhampton Council announced in November it had been awarded £1.4m in government funding to help prepare the two sites for new homes.

It has since awarded a near £3m contract to fill mineshafts and clear up the two sites for the housing plans.

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