Dudley office block site work faces delay
A major regeneration scheme to transform a derelict office block in Dudley could be hit with delays, warned opposition councillors concerned over protracted talks.
Proposals to knock down former Inland Revenue building, Cavendish House, are in the pipeline ahead of a redevelopment scheme which it is hoped will boost the town centre.
Planning permission has been awarded to two separate schemes on the site, off Trindle Road, to build a supermarket.
But more than one landowner controls part of the site and Conservative group councillors warned Dudley Council's cabinet they could face deadlock in getting a deal agreed.
However the council's regeneration chief, Councillor Judy Foster, said she hopes decisions would be concluded by the summer to secure one of the proposed projects.
Rival developers Avenbury and Cavendish Quarter Properties Ltd have submitted plans for supermarket developments at the site.
Conservative group leader, Councillor Patrick Harley, speaking at last night's meeting said: "This is dragging on forever and ever." He said he feared each applicant would 'sit on that land and play a game of who blinks first'.
