PLANS to demolish a community centre in Kidderminster to make way for housing have been given the green light by the district council’s planning committee.

Wyre Forest District Council’s planning committee gave delegated approval to plans – subject to a section 106 agreement - to demolish Rifle Range Community Centre, in Dowles Road, to provide 12 houses with associated landscaping and parking for affordable housing, when they met on Tuesday, February 21.

Should the section 106 agreement as required not be signed and agreed by July 18, 2017, then the committee is sought to refuse the application.

The application was submitted by Oakleaf Commercial Services.

The Dowles Road Community Centre occupies the centre of the site on the Rifle Range residential estate, in Kidderminster.

A report by planning officers to the committee, stated the community centre appears “vacant” and there is no obvious recent use of the building.

The report submitted to the committee said: “Planning permission is sought for the redevelopment of the site to provide 12 dwellings arrange in four blocks of three terraced properties.

“Two of the four blocks would sit between 43 and 45 Dowles Road with car parking proposed to the front of each dwelling. The remaining two blocks would sit perpendicular to the aforementioned proposed dwellings at the rear of the site with access off Dowles Road to a shared parking area.

“All of the properties would be two-bed homes and as such two car parking spaces are proposed for each dwelling.”