Plan for flats at Dulux paint shop

Part of a painting and decorating shop in Wolverhampton could be knocked down to make way for new flats.

Converting former offices at the Dulux Decorator Centre in Chapel Ash into five new flats was proposed in a planning application that has been submitted to the city council.

The whole building would be repaired and refurbished under the plans by Tim Dixon, director of Wolverhampton firm SJ Dixon & Son, with the ground floor space, which is empty, kept as a shop.

The Dixon company's former warehouse in Cleveland Road, built in the late 19th Century, and nearby land is being converted into nearly 100 new flats and homes.

The area forms part of the proposed multi-million pound Royal Quarter in Wolverhampton which already includes new houses and apartments on the site of the city's former bus depot.

The former Royal Hospital site was bought and sold by Tesco with plans for a new supermarket failing to get off the ground and has now been converted into apartments.

In the plans for the Dulux site, buildings at the back would be demolished to make way for a car park and a new staircase to serve the new bedsits.

A tenant for the ground floor space once refurbished was not yet known, the application said.

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

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