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Wedge Group's new head office nears completion

A former school in Willenhall will be the new head office for Wedge Group Galvanizing.

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Work near completion on the new group headquarters

The office will move from Stafford Street to the nearby Little London Schoolsite which closed in 2007.

Wolverhampton-based AM Griffiths & Son is converting the building which has suffered from vandalism and fly tipping over the years.

A grade II listed clock tower on the site has been preserved in the scheme drawn up by Wolverhampton architects Tweedale.

Wedge Group Galvanizing has 14 plants across the UK including BE Wedge at the Stafford Street site in Willenhall and Edward Howell Galvanizers in Watery Lane, Wednesfield.

In 2007 pupils from Little London along with those from Lakeside Primary and Clothier Street were moved to a new £4.5 million Fibberlsey Park School in nearby Noose Lane.

The site had been earmarked to be a centre for Willenhall Heritage Trust but that plan failed to materialise.

The remaining part of the school will be bulldozed in the second phase to make way for 20 homes.