A plan to open a children’s residential home that has been rejected twice by a council could still go ahead.

City of Wolverhampton Council has twice rejected planning applications to convert a six-bed home in Codsall Road, Wolverhampton, into a residential home for children.

The local authority rejected a move in 2024 to convert the home for up to four children and then turned down another application to use the home for up to three children saying the facility was not needed.

The applicant Support and Sustain Care Ltd has now appealed to the government’s planning inspectorate in a bid to get the council’s ruling on the home for four children overturned.

City of Wolverhampton Council first rejected a move to convert the six-bed home into a residential home for up to four children in Ap

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