The applicant behind a controversial children’s home in Blakenall has now proposed to build three additional homes on the same site.

Assist Development has submitted plans to build the three-bedroom detached homes at the rear of 41 and 43 Dartmouth Avenue.

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Only last month, two existing semi-detached family homes on Dartmouth Avenue were given permission to become a children’s care home for up to four kids with emotional and behavioural difficulties.

Walsall Council’s planning committee had originally refused the application to convert the properties because they felt the area was too dangerous for already vulnerable children.

But Assist Development lodged an appeal to the planning inspector and the refusal wa

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