Wolverhampton pharmacy to be demolished and rebuilt as a salon with treatment rooms in transformative plans for a busy high street
An empty pharmacy will be demolished and rebuilt as a new salon as part of plans to transform a row of shops off a busy road in Wolverhampton.
The now empty Newbridge Pharmacy in Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton, will be demolished and replaced with a new building containing a new salon built across three floors after a planning application was approved by City of Wolverhampton Council.
The neighbouring former Mark Taylor antiques shop, which closed in the late 2000s and has been boarded up since, would also be demolished under the plans by Min Bahia given the seal of approval by the local authority’s planners.
The application, submitted earlier this year, said both buildings on the busy Tettenhall Road had “fallen into disrepair” and had structural defects that could cause a “major hazard if allowed to decay further”.
A structural survey accompanying the planning application said the buildings were “structurally unsound” and repairs to the roof, walls and floors would likely cost more than rebuilding. The survey recommended it would be “preferable to demolish the building and start from scratch.”
The plans for the new salon would see treatment rooms built in the former pharmacy’s basement with the ground and first floors also converted.
Two new shop units would also be built on the ground and first floors.
The existing pharmacy, which relocated from 325 to 327 Tettenhall Road a few years ago, would remain.
A statement included with the application by Min Bahia said: “The application site comprises the vacant properties of 325 and 323 Tettenhall Road.
“Both [were] constructed [in the] early part of 1900s and appear to be subsequently rendered.
“323 has been vacant for nearly 20 years and 325 has been vacant for two to three years and [was] formerly a chemist.
“Both properties have fallen into disrepair and have major structural defects which could cause major hazard to adjacent premises and passers by if allowed to decay further.
“The proposal is to demolish both properties with [the] basement remaining and to reconstruct 325 on the same footprint as [the] existing [building], providing two new commercial units with additional commercial accommodation on [the] upper floors.”
