Changes to i54 set to get go-ahead

Fresh plans for the £65 million i54 business park have been recommended for approval – seven months after building work was due to start.

Revised plans for the scheme on the Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire border, which is due to create 6,000 jobs, will be discussed by both councils in the new year.

Planners are recommending changes are approved for the site in Wobaston Road, which went back to the drawing board earlier this year to be tripled in size in order to make it attractive to developers.

It has been over a year since landscaping work finished and so far only one company, GE Aviation, is interested in moving in.

The original first phase of the scheme was going to be 161,458 sq ft but Advantage West Midlands wants it to be 538,196 sq ft. Planners also want work to start on ripping out the Vine Island on the A449 Stafford Road as soon as possible.