Final planning application submitted for new Dudley Transport Interchange

A new £24 million Dudley transport interchange has moved a step closer after a final planning application was submitted earlier this month. It will be built on the current bus station site and will see bus and tram services linked.

The interchange is planned to include comfortable waiting areas, real time travel information, space for a retail unit and cycle parking will be a two-storey building. Featuring a distinctive curved roof with solar panels on top running costs should be reduced and with space for a “living green” roof it should help to absorb carbon emissions and support the region’s net-zero by 2041 plan.

Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands, said: “Recently we saw the first Metro track laid in Dudley town centre and now we are making progress on developing a purpose built transport interchange for the new trams to arrive into. We are putting Dudley’s historic lack of connectivity and investment well and truly behind us now, with residents able to look forward to a revamped town centre with first-class public transport.”

The interchange is due to be funded by the West Midlands Combined Authority. The next steps will see a contractor appointed to construct the interchange later this spring.

Cllr Patrick Harley, Dudley Council Leader, said: “Progress continues at pace in our £1 billion regeneration of Dudley town centre and I am pleased the interchange is now at full planning stage. If plans are approved, the interchange promises to give a huge boost to a tired but albeit busy part of the town and make sure it is central to our regeneration plans. It will be our renewed transport hub bringing together both bus and Metro services and creating that all important link to the national rail system.”

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