10 road miles from Birmingham
Repairs in Dudley
Dudley’s retail core sits on a steep hill, which matters more than it sounds — thresholds, level access and door swings all have to be worked out on site rather than assumed from a drawing. The Market Place frontages are mostly older stock with surviving pilasters and stallrisers, and they are worth keeping — they are what make an older front read as a shopfront. Out towards Castle Gate and the trading estates the work is modern openings and shutters.
- Planning authority
- Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
- County
- West Midlands
- Retail streets and centres
- High Street, Market Place, Churchill Shopping Centre
Heritage: Dudley town centre carries a conservation area covering the Market Place and parts of High Street, where original shopfront detail is expected to be retained rather than concealed.
Nearby: Brierley Hill, Tipton, Halesowen, Stourbridge