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Cleveland Street, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV1 3HR

The view in Wolverhampton City.

In the early 1990s this was the first of the "bring your own booze" curry houses in Wolverhampton sporting the "balti" name rather than the previously fashionable "tandoori" or even earlier just plain "curry". The kitchen was open to full view, behind the serving area. In a basic decor, just a few basic meals were offered at a good price, and very tasty they were too. Only three out eleven units in this row are now trading being at the edge of the defunct Summer Row regeneration scheme. After about twenty years of fiddle and fudge with no result we are yet again waiting for a positive rebuilding project to make Wolverhampton a place worth visiting. Perhaps we will then have a "fusion" restaurant ... if that hasn't already gone out of fashion! Update December 2022: To be demolished. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/wolverhampton/2022/12/14/empty-shops-in-wolverhampton-city-centre-to-be-demolished/

This parade was well on its way to disuse while the abandoned Summer Row redevelopment plan ground to a halt. Most units are now occupied again. Update December 2022: To be demolished https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/wolverhampton/2022/12/14/empty-shops-in-wolverhampton-city-centre-to-be-demolished/

Businesses which operate from this row of shops often do not trade for very long. Update December 2022: T be demolished. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/wolverhampton/2022/12/14/empty-shops-in-wolverhampton-city-centre-to-be-demolished/

Many years of stop-start-stop road reorganisation and "city redevelopment" continue here. Ahead, the corner plot at the junction with Victoria Street is about to be built on. Victoria Street is closed (off to the right by the blue hoardings), and will remain permanently so to through traffic as it is to be fully pedestrianised. The austere and now dilapidated 1960s Cleveland Parade shops on the right are to be demolished at last. Much of this should have been achieved fifteen or even twenty years ago! The recently installed tower crane is enormous. I estimate to be almost a hundred feet (thirty metres) tall. Update December 2022: T be demolished. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/wolverhampton/2022/12/14/empty-shops-in-wolverhampton-city-centre-to-be-demolished/

Looking from Summer Row. Update December 2022: T be demolished. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/wolverhampton/2022/12/14/empty-shops-in-wolverhampton-city-centre-to-be-demolished/

Looking west towards the tower of the Market Place apartments. The Junction of Cleveland Street with Summer Row (off to the left) is seen here from the Wulfrun Centre rooftop car park.

The view in Wolverhampton City.

Since the collapse of long delayed plans for the Summer Row Regeneration project, most of these 1960s units are now occupied again. Only two out of eleven units are available to rent. The street lighting has been renewed since 2012. Image] Update December 2022: T be demolished. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/wolverhampton/2022/12/14/empty-shops-in-wolverhampton-city-centre-to-be-demolished/

Since the collapse of long delayed plans for the Summer Row Regeneration project, most of these 1960s units are now occupied again. Only two out of eleven units are available to rent. As recently as March 2012 that figure was nine! Update December 2022: T be demolished. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/wolverhampton/2022/12/14/empty-shops-in-wolverhampton-city-centre-to-be-demolished/