Industrial estate flats plan rejected because it would ‘overexpose residents to dirt and noise’ approved by same council two years later

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A move to convert an empty office block on an industrial estate into more than 70 flats that was rejected because it would overexpose tenants to ‘noise, dust and fumes’ has now been approved by the same council two years later.

City of Wolverhampton rejected a planning application to transform the Saturn Centre in Spring Road, Ettingshall, into 77 flats in 2023 saying it would expose future tenants to too much noise, dust and fumes from the surrounding factories.

However, the local authority’s planners have now backed the same plan after it was re-submitted earlier this year.

The applicant Crown Choice Investments had appealed the council’s 2023 decision but was rejected for a second time after the government’s planning inspectors agreed the block’s location would overexpose