90 parking spaces may go in Wolverhampton

Up to 90 parking spaces in Wolverhampton city centre will be scrapped to make way for a £6 million youth club being part funded by Wolves owner Steve Morgan.

Wolverhampton City Council is planning to build a giant "youth zone" in the city centre.

Plans will be drawn up to put the building either on Broad Street car park, with the loss of 90 spaces, or on the market car park, with the loss of 65 spaces.

If the market is chosen, alternative spaces would be provided elsewhere nearby.

Council bosses today hailed the project as the biggest thing they had ever done for the city's youth.

But the leader of a business group warned that the loss of parking spaces would be bad for the economy.

The council stressed that work was a long way off starting as it still needs to secure millions of pounds of private sector funding. The council will plough £3m into the scheme with the rest coming from the private sector, including Mr Morgan.

But Henry Carver, chairman of the Wolverhampton Business Group, said: "This could be opened on the outskirts of the city centre instead and replace one of many derelict buildings."