Makeover for roads leading to new super campus at Springfield Brewery site
Spending of more than £500,000 has been approved to overhaul roads near the £110 million super campus on the former Springfield Brewery site in Wolverhampton city centre.
The work will involve improvements to Wednesfield Road, Cambridge Street and Cannock Road, including crossing facilities and connections to walking and cycle routes and the newly refurbished canal towpath.
The £550,000 scheme will 'substantially' enhance access from the Wolverhampton Interchange and from the north of the city to the emerging campus.
The Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership, which has granted the cash, said the environment for students and other pedestrians would be 'considerably' improved by the work, aimed at making the roads safer and more attractive.
Previous funding covered the area from outside the main entrance to the campus in Cambridge Street, along Grimstone Street, to the Victoria Halls development, and is now complete.
The work is expected to be finished before the end of March next year.
In July, the Black Country LEP handed over a further £500,000 to the University of Wolverhampton when structural problems were exposed during work on the Elite Centre for Manufacturing Skills, formerly the brewery stables, at the site.
It is part of a wider hub focused on the building industry at the brewery site, which will also be home to the university’s School of Architecture and Built Environment and the West Midlands Construction University Technical College, which opened in November.
