Plans to build townhouses opposite landmark pub revived after several years and no action
A move to build townhouses and flats opposite a pub has been revived more than five years after the plans were first approved.
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The application to build townhouses and flats on an eyesore patch of empty land opposite the Navigation pub off in Titford Road, Oldbury, was approved by Sandwell Council in 2018.
The plans, which include three townhouses, 11 flats and 18 parking spaces, have since gone through several revisions, the latest of which was put to the council at the start of the year.
The boarded-up patch of land off the busy Wolverhampton Road was home to a builder’s yard in the early 2000s before it was demolished – but little work has taken place since.
An application to demolish the buildings on the plot and build several flats was granted by Sandwell Council in 2004 and a bigger application for 14 flats was then approved a year later.
The application for the townhouses and flats was then put forward and approved a decade later. Most of the application was signed off by the council in 2018 but the work never started. A number of revisions to the application were made at the start of this year and approved last month. A new application asking for permission to change the layout and build a slightly taller building than the one approved has now been submitted to Sandwell Council.
Sandwell Council is looking to sell two plots of green space next to the M5 and behind Oldbury Fire Station in Old Park Lane off Titford Road.
Earlier this year, a move to build 60 homes on nearby green space was turned down by Sandwell councillors over fears toxic pollution could cause cancer for future residents.
The authority’s planning committee rejected an application in February to build the mix of flats and homes on a much-loved ‘wildlife corridor’ off Titord Road – a stone’s throw from Old Park Lane.
The plan was rejected over fears that future residents would be subject to toxic pollution from not only the M5 but Wolverhampton Road and Titford Road – with the predicted level of poisonous fumes from the busy roads breaching illegal levels for families by the time they moved onto the new estate.
