Restaurant plans for Walsall property once home to ‘waste mountain’
Plans have been submitted to convert a property once home to Walsall’s ‘biggest pile of dumped waste’ into a peri peri restaurant.
The property at 70 Hollyhedge Lane, which was previously the A1 Furniture textile and factory workshop, has recently been transformed.
Earlier this year Walsall Council carried out a large-scale clean up of the site as the waste dumped in the rear courtyard sprawled out onto Dalkeith Street.
Residents living on Dalkeith Street speaking to the Local Democracy Reporting Service in November 2024, complained of rodents, bad smells and even fires as they claim squatters had taken refuge behind the then-derelict furniture shop.
Later that month, the council served Community Protection Notices to those associated with the building, but said it had to carry out the clear up after the order was ‘not adhered to’.
The council said clear up costs from waste on Dalkeith Street alone had cost taxpayers £15,000 since April 2022.
Following the clear up, the former carpet workshop has had a major facelift, and now plans have been submitted by Rio’s Peri Walsall Ltd to turn part of the property into a restaurant.
The change of use proposal includes a conversion of the front section as a franchise for Peri Peri Chicken Ltd, and the installation of an extractor fan at the rear of the property.
