Part Two: Centres and Site Allocations (Regulation 18)

Comment

Representation ID: 265

Received: 22/12/2023

Respondent: CPRE West Midlands Group

The present scope of site H4 appears to be related to the area owned by the (now closed) Wilko store. This was previously Owen Owen department store and earlier
Stringers department store. Into this was incorporated much of the site of a former cinema.

St Johns Road (now part of the ring road) between Coventry Street and Foster Street was a new road driven through between the wars so that the heavily
congested High Street could become a one-way street. This involved some slum clearance, of what was then Angel Street. The west side of the street here has
never had an active frontage, but this plan provides an opportunity to develop one.

Apart from the Wilko site, the frontage consists of:
 the Royal Mail yard, which was related to the old Post Office, but could easily be relocated these days, if required at all
 Eagle House car park, owned with a jeweller’s shop in High Street
 (in Coventry St) a council car park where property has been demolished.

All of this would make a substantial development site. It is currently used (but not heavily used) for car parking. Potentially that use could be retained at street level,
with flats above, along the whole frontage.

Declaration of interest:
I am an owner of (redacted). I am also chairman of CPRE Worcestershire, but Am making this objection in my personal capacity. I have no interest in the site referred to above.