New homes refused but car workshop gets green light
The plan, to demolish a garage workshop and build a new apartment block on Phoenix Passage, was given outline permission 2022.
Dudley planners however were not impressed by the proposed design of the new building and also had concerns about highway safety.
A report from council officers on the plan said: 'This full application proposes development on three floors with one flat at ground floor and three to each the first and second floors.
'The building is generally T-shaped with garage parking under the building providing two off-road parking spaces.
'A further concern is that at ground floor level there is no active frontage with garage doors and a section of blank brickwork dominating.'
In refusing the application, planners also raised concerns about parking provision and how vehicles would leave the site.
Dudley head of planning, Carl Mellor, said: 'Whilst the proposed development shows the provision of two garage parking spaces for the development, it is noted that neither of these garages are to be provided in accordance with the council's adopted car parking standards and such would be unusable by the majority of cars.
'Moreover, the submitted tracking information which is not scaled fails to demonstrate that cars can successfully reverse out of the garages in a safe and convenient manner.'
Planners have granted permission for conversion of Russells Hall Neighbourhood Centre to a car facelift workshop with a single storey side extension.
In their report on the proposal for the Overfield Road building, planning officers said: 'The proposed development would provide job opportunities within the area and ensure the building is in a viable and suitable use.
'There would be no detrimental impact to amenity and there is sufficient car parking and no expected highways implications.'
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