Five new homes approved on 'large plot of land' in Dudley

Work had already begun on the site to build the 2.5 storey three-bedroom detached homes on Bath Street.

The application was part retrospective because work had started without proper discharge of pre-commencement conditions; however planners accepted a recommendation from officers to approve the scheme.

Planners have refused an application for construction in Amblecote, Stourbridge after finding it was ‘garden grabbing’ that would clutter the street scene.

The application was for a single two-bedroom home in land associated with number one Dennis Hall Road and was an amended version of a plan that was refused in 2024.

A former pub in Brierley Hill is set for a new lease of life as apartments after planners granted permission for conversion of the ground floor.

There are already two flats on the first floor of the Red Lion on High Street and Dudley Council has now approved conversion of the bar area into a further two units.

The work will include the removal of an existing external staircase and the installation of an internal staircase.

An outbuilding will be converted into a bike/bin store and the site will be landscaped.

A former car repair and sales garage in Kingswinford is set to be demolished to make way for six new three-bedroom homes.

Dudley Council has agreed a plan to remove Mill Garage on Market Street to make way for the development after a previous application was amended to improve the parking layout.

Planning officers decided the scheme would make full and efficient use of the land and despite the dwellings falling short of national space standards they were acceptable.

Objectors were celebrating after a plan to convert a popular Coseley pub into a convenience store was thrown out.

Dudley planners refused permission for the project at the Old Chain Yard on Castle Street after deciding the plan did not make efficient use of the site and failed to futureproof a heritage asset.