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City centre transformation set to advance in coming weeks
Black Country Bugle
|April 01, 2026
WORKS will begin in sections of Lichfield Street and Queen Square early in April, as delivery of the major £19million Wolverhampton city centre transformation scheme progresses.
A computer-generated image of what Lichfield Street could look like
There will be a short pause to operations on upper Darlington Street, between the Waterloo Road and North Street junctions, while the new locations are set up, after technical designs were finalised.
First stage works on lower Darlington Street were completed in November ahead of the busy Christmas period.
This story is from the April 01, 2026 edition of Black Country Bugle.
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