Shop owner still waiting for green light to demolish wall 16 months after it was removed

A shop owner will finally be told by a council if he has permission to demolish a wall – 16 months after he knocked it down.

Applicant Simon Bagri, from UK Wide Real Estate, asked for ‘retrospective’ permission from Sandwell Council for work already carried out to the former Hateley Heath Post Office and McColl’s convenience store in Jowetts Lane in West Bromwich.