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A council will buy a long-empty pub in Wolverhampton to make way for new housing.

City of Wolverhampton Council said it will use compulsory purchase powers to snap up the eyesore former Bagot Arms in Newhampton Road East in Whitmore Reans to make way for affordable housing.

The pub closed after it was the scene of a fatal shooting in 2008 and has remained empty since.

The boarded-up and overgrown site, which has become a hotbed for anti-social behaviour, received planning permission from the City of Wolverhampton Council in 2023 to turn the site into shops and flats but the work has never been carried out.

In a report, due to be discussed by the Labour-run council’s cabinet on December 10, said there was “no clear sign” the work was going to go ahead.

The council said it h

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