Fifteen ‘high-quality’ homes could be built on a piece of grassland next to the canal in Walsall town centre.

Plans have been submitted to deliver ‘Walsall Waterfront’ homes off Upper Navigation Street to the rear of Piri Fino restaurant.

The proposals by applicant SSK Assets Limited detail 11 two-bedroom, two storey homes and four three-bedroom, three storey homes. 

There will be 15 car parking spaces for residents and vehicle access will be from Navigation Street. Historically, the brownfield site was used as a wharf for Walsall Canal, and later as a coal depot. 

More recently, the site served as a parking area until it was re-profiled around 2008 to accommodate imported fill from nearby developments. Each of the proposed houses are modular pre-fabricated units built off-site and lifted into position with a mobile crane. 

The applicant has estimated the construction phase of the project will take around 43 weeks.

Each home will have a south-facing timber decked terrace, separate from the shared residents’ garden and a balcony facing onto the canal.

Proposals also include a ‘vibrant urban square’, titled Waterside Square, at the east of the site, and Canalside Gardens, a canal-side public space, at the western part of the site.