Permission granted for new Mazda showroom opposite former Land Rover site in Wolverhampton
A car dealer has been told it can build a new showroom on a prominent city-centre site.
Plans for a new showroom and workshop space at Brindley Honda in Stafford Street, Wolverhampton, have been approved.
Senior planning officer at Wolverhampton Council, Stephen Alexander, granted permission for the extension, which will add 9,795 sq ft of extra floorspace to the site.
The site, on the corner of Bone Mill Lane, is opposite the soon-to-be demolished former Land Rover garage.
The new showroom will be built on land currently used as a sales forecourt. There will be 30 parking spaces to the front of the site, and a ramp will link the new area to the existing Mazda showroom.
Work is expected to start next month on the demolition of the former Land Rover showroom on the opposite side of Bone Mill Lane.
The site, which previously housed a Suzuki and Lada dealer, has been empty since 2012, when it closed with the loss of 45 jobs. A new £14 million dealer later opened off Penn Road.
It is understood that a sale has now been agreed for the 7,100 sq ft building, after it was recently advertised for £1 million.
The council had identified the site as being suitable for mixed retail and commercial development.
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