Council awards £3m contract to build 10 bungalows on site of former Wolverhampton care home
A council has awarded a £3m contract to a developer to build ten bungalows on a city estate.
Cannock-based Morro Partnerships will build ten ‘affordable’ bungalows on the site of the former Dale House care home on the Low Hill estate.
The site on the corner of Showell Circus and Hendon Close in Low Hill was home to Dale House care home before it was demolished in 2008 and the fenced-off site has remained empty since.
City of Wolverhampton Council has now revealed the £3.33m contract – five years after approving plans to build homes on the overgrown land.
A planning application for eight two-bed and two one-bed bungalows was approved by the council in early 2024.
This had followed earlier approval from the council in 2020 for nine new homes.
Following its closure, plans to replace Dale House with 43 flats and communal facilities for the elderly were rejected by City of Wolverhampton Council in 2008 over the size of the proposed building.
The council’s planners said the three-storey block, which would have housed four times the amount of people than the care home, would have been “overwhelming.”
Next week, the Labour-run authority’s cabinet will discuss plans to sell a row of old offices on the opposite side of Showell Circus as one of several sites that will be sold to meet a £4.5m savings target.
The former council offices, which are still owned by the authority, could be used for new housing.
