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A PROPOSED Cradley housing scheme which residents feared would intensify anti-social behaviour problems they suffer has been rejected. Developers had hoped to construct 10 houses, a bungalow and a communal garden on two parcels of land on Foredraft Street and had received support from Dudley Council planning officers who recommended approval. But the proposal was rejected by members of the authority’s development control committee at a meeting on Wednesday (April 28) due to concerns about a loss of parking hitting shops on the nearby high street and a loss of green space for residents...

Pic: Google AN UNPOPULAR scheme to build a block of flats in Cradley has been scrapped by Dudley Council and replaced with plans for new houses. Cradley Councillors Gaye Partridge, Richard Body and Tim Crumpton, are welcoming the proposal for ten homes and one bungalow on Foredraft Street. Residents had been up in arms over a previous proposal to build a block of 15 flats, a housing support office, four bungalows and a detached house on two council-owned parcels of land on opposite sides of Foredraft Street. Scores of objections against the scheme were lodged. In welcome news for re...