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£250m plan to overhaul land on Wolverhampton route

A £250 million investment is being sought to overhaul 1,000 acres of land around Wolverhampton's Stafford Road, with a view to creating 3,000 jobs.

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A £250 million investment is being sought to overhaul 1,000 acres of land around Wolverhampton's Stafford Road, with a view to creating 3,000 jobs.

Council bosses are working to secure private cash to transform the area, which forms the main route from the i54 business park into the city centre. They are hoping to create 1,250 homes by 2016.

The local authority is also planning to spend millions of pounds of its own cash to improve the busy road's junctions so it can handle extra traffic. This will be on top of work already taking place at the Vine Island.

City council planning boss Ian Culley said his team was working on permanently allocating land along the corridor for business and housing so that developers and employers had the certainty they need to expand or borrow money to build.

"Stafford Road is the main gateway to Wolverhampton from the north," he said. "This work will send out all the right signals that the city is a place to do business."

One potential site for hou-sing, Fowlers Playing Fields in Park Village, is proving controversial as residents fear the plan would lead to more traffic congestion.

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