Tag Archives: Toxic waste

Good news on Brownhills Business Park: once again, sense prevails

Posted on January 22, 2012 by BrownhillsBob

I had a welcome email yesterday from top reader and contributor Andy Dennis. He pointed out that the appeal against the refusal of planning permission for the demolition of Brownhills Business Park and the construction of a housing development had … Continue reading →

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Back from the dead?

Posted on December 14, 2011 by BrownhillsBob

It seems a bizarre, defeated planning application that has been covered here before on the blog has been resurrected. The plan to demolish Brownhills Business Park currently existing on the former site of Walsall Wood Colliery, and latterly Brownhills Commercials … Continue reading →

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Toxic assets: Brownhills Businesss Park housing plan withdrawn

Posted on July 10, 2011 by BrownhillsBob

I noted with some amusement on Friday that the planned scheme to build nearly a hundred dwellings on the business park on the corner of Lindon Road and Coppice Road in Walsall Wood had been abandoned. This project has been … Continue reading →

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Green grew the rushes

Posted on August 15, 2010 by BrownhillsBob

There’s been some fascinating discussion recently about the Veolia hazardous waste plant (formerly Effluent Disposal/Polymeric Treatments/Leigh Environmental/Sarp) in Stubbers Green. In the comment section of my post about the redevelopment of Brownhills Business Park, ‘The Effluent Society‘, regular and clueful … Continue reading →

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The Effluent society

Posted on May 27, 2010 by BrownhillsBob

Further to my post last week, regarding the plans by The Ashtenne Industrial Fund Unit Trust to demolish Brownhills Business Park and construct housing, granted on appeal by the Planning Inspectorate, I’ve been looking into the history of the site in question. … Continue reading →

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Shafted?

Posted on May 20, 2010 by BrownhillsBob

I notice that there’s some commotion on the Brownhills/Walsall Wood border at the moment. Local councillor Mike ‘Burger Boy’ Flower has rightly flagged up in his thankfully rejuvenated blog that a plan to demolish Brownhills Business Park (the former surface … Continue reading →

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