Government reveals AWM property assets to be transferred
THE Government has unveiled the final list of property and land assets owned by Advantage West Midlands which are to be transferred to the Homes and Communities Agency.
In July, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills confirmed months of rumours that the housing quango would be taking over the AWM assets which had not already been sold via the open market.
The i54 site in south Staffordshire, earmarked as a future hub for manufacturing and aerospace companies, is among the major property sites to be transferred.
Others include the headquarters of Business Link WM on Quinton Business Park near Halesowen, the former Corus Site in Tyseley and land adjoining Warwickshire cricket ground in Edgbaston.
AWM’s property and land bank has previously been valued at around £400m. The regional development agency is being wound down for closure in spring 2012 and has been replaced by Local Enterprise Partnerships across the West Midlands.
The asset transfer is due to come into effect on September 19 with local authorities encouraged to work with the HCA on managing the assets via new local committees to be set up.
The full list of AWM assets to be transferred is:
Aston Regional Investment Site, Aston, Birmingham
Business Link WM HQ, Quinton Business Park
Corus Site, Tyseley
Land at ‘Eastside’, Birmingham
Land adjoining the County Ground, Edgbaston
Ex-Matthew Bolton College Site, Birmingham
Icknield Port Loop, Ladywood, Birmingham
Land at Serpentine Road and Aston Hall Road, Aston, Birmingham
Part of former MG Rover Works, Longbridge
James Bridge Cooper Site, Darlaston
Castle Gate Business Park, Dudley
Dog & Partridge Pub, Brierley Hill
Bar 148, Brierley Hill
Sandwell College campus, West Bromwich
Walsall Waterfront
Bilston Urban Village
iCentral, Wolverhampton Science Park
i54, near Wolverhampton
Land at Browns Lane, Coventry
Ex-Media site, Parkside, Coventry
Far Gosford Industrial Estate, Coventry
Larch Homes, Coventry
Land at Chetton Drive and Jaguar Sports and Social Club, Radford, Coventry
Wall & Floor Tiles, Coventry
Camp Hill Urban Village, Nuneaton
Ansty Park, Coventry
Three Elms Trading Estate, Hereford
Chartwell Business Park, Bridgnorth
Railway Land, Oswestry
Wem Timber Yard, Shropshire
City Wharf Industrial Estate, Lichfield
Hilton Cross Business Park, Wolverhampton
Andromeda Building; 9 Broad Street; Former Jobcentre; Crown Street Garage – all in Hanley
Land next to Bromsgrove Technology Park
Land off Colliery Road, St. Martins, Shropshire
Civic Park Phase 2, Whitchurch
Remaining fragments at Fort Dunlop, Birmingham
Tenbury Wells strip, Worcestershire
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