The redevelopment of the city’s wholesale market site in Hickman Avenue is
designed to accommodate the City of Wolverhampton Council’s fleet services
operation, which will relocate from its current Culwell Street depot.

The move will free up the Culwell Street site for hundreds of new homes as
part of the Brewers Yard regeneration masterplan.

Relocation of the fleet services and redevelopment of the wholesale market
will look to create a further 110 construction jobs, help reduce the council’s
carbon footprint and support its programme to deliver a fleet of electric
vehicles.

The modernisation plans have been developed in consultation with market
traders and other existing users.

Enabling works to begin this spring will include the demolition of ancillary
buildings on the Hickman Avenue site.

Main construction works are expected to get under way by early autumn this
year.It will be business as usual for the wholesale market throughout all stages of the work.

Once it is built traders will move out of the old wholesale market building into
the new one.

City of Wolverhampton Council Cabinet Member for Environment and Climate
Change, Councillor Craig Collingswood, said: “It will be terrific to see the start
of preliminary works at the Hickman Avenue site as it will be a signal that we
are moving closer to the regeneration of two important city sites.

“These projects are going to be a huge boost to the city in terms of jobs,
businesses and homes.

“The proposed relocation of our fleet services operation will make it more
efficient further cutting the council’s carbon footprint, while the redevelopment
of the Hickman Avenue site will see buildings that are more than 50 years old
replaced at the city’s wholesale market.”

An outline planning application has already been approved for the Culwell
Street depot site to demolish the existing buildings, remediate the brownfield
land and make it ready for the development of new homes as part of the
Brewers Yard scheme in the coming years.

Once all the land is unlocked for housing the completed scheme will see a
mixture of houses and apartments, and new retail and commercial space.
The development will also sit just a few hundred metres from the city’s new
transport Interchange, providing quick, direct access to Birmingham, London
and Manchester.