Redrow acquires former golf course for large-scale housing project

WOLVERHAMPTON Wanderers owner Steve Morgan’s housebuilding group Redrow is to build 1,100 new homes on a former golf course near Tamworth.

It has acquired the 148-acre former golf course in Amington near Tamworth from the town’s borough council.

It already has outline planning consent for a housing scheme.

The course, close to Redrow’s regional HQ in Kinsall Green, closed in October 2014.

Redrow has committed to invest £14m in the local area including contributions towards the cost of building a primary school.

A planning application for the first phase of building is due to be submitted in the next few weeks with the aim of starting work in the autumn.