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PART of a huge office block in Halesowen town centre looks set to be converted into 77 apartments. Trinity Point on New Road, near the Earls island, will be converted after demand for office space dropped during the coronavirus pandemic. Five levels of the East Wing offices will be converted to 77 apartments under plans submitted to Dudley Council. There will be 69 one-bed and eight two-bed apartments and 59 parking spaces. The layout of Trinity Point (The East wing is shown above to the right) Dudley Council already granted approval for conversion of the whole building into 1...

New homes built through Permitted Development (PD) rights must meet the Government's new space standard introduced on April 6, 2021. A recent…

The group adds that “others are needed for proposed active travel schemes”. The report concludes: “Our evaluation suggests that about one-third of the 130 bridges and tunnels earmarked for demolition or infilling by Highways England has demonstrable value, although another third has no realistic value and could reasonably be put beyond use without apparent consequences. “It is recognised that the 3,100 structures of the Historical Railways Estate have to be managed appropriately to ensure they present no meaningful public safety risk. “A handful of the threatened bridges carry A-roa...

Dear Editor, I am extremely concerned about the safety of those of us who have had to be given the Astra Zenica vaccine, even though it has been found to be less effective than the Pfizer vaccine and to be almost ineffective in giving any protection against the South African variant. I feel that this is particularly concerning as regards people such as myself and my husband, who are elderly and clinically vulnerable. I realise that, due to the health crisis in England, vaccines needed to be rolled out as quickly as possible. However it seems extremely unfair and immoral that many of us ...

TORY MP Jake Berry leads the Northern Research Group, the Conservative MPs who claim to know what voters in former Labour seats in the north really want. It turns out Berry thinks they want a fresh dose of Thatcherism. They want deregulation and they want businessmen taking over local government, in a plan that was put together with the help of a giant bank with a history of big public subsidies and squeezing the “little” people. This February, Berry co-wrote a widely reported policy pamphlet published by the Thatcherite Centre for Policy Studies — it called for a Northern Big Bang. You...