Apartments have been proposed for the site of a former police headquarters in Dudley.
Planning, Design & Build has lodged plans with Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council to transform the site of Dudley Police Station on New Street.
The proposal is for the conversion of the existing building at basement and ground floor level into self-contained flats, comprising 14, one-bedroom and three, two-bedroom units.
The existing building will be fully refurbished internally, and alterations would include limited works to the rear flat roof sections.
The existing rear shared service yard area will be maintained for access of residents and for removing domestic wastebins. There will be safe storage and recharging for cycles and P2W scooters within the building at basement and ground floor area.
RESIDENTS could find themselves living ‘behind bars’ in a scheme to convert the former Dudley Police Station and police cells into apartments. Dudley Council planners are now considering a scheme to create 14 flats on the basement and ground floor levels of the building on the corner of New Street in the town centre. And one of the proposed ground floor apartments will be created where three old cells are with two bedrooms and a living room having views that police prisoners once ‘enjoyed’. Agent Planning Design & Build Ltd said the scheme – providing 11 one bedroom and three two bedroom apartments – would bring the vacant building in the conservation area back into use.