They are in dire financial straits so wrap your head around this!

In Wollaston the owners of my in-laws former care home put in a planning application to turn the building into an HMO (House of multiple occupancy) but they got rejecting by Dudley Planning Dept because it would be too “intrusive” on the locality and there wasn’t enough parking.

Move forward 6 months and the same Council have just purchased this tired old building…..for £1.9m…..and their plan is to turn it into a HMO!

Unbelievable on many levels.

I know property values extremely well in our area, this £1.9m is ludicrous, it’s worth not even half of what they’re paying.

The whole thing stinks from top to bottom.

They’ve also paid nearly £1m for another old people’s home half a mile away which they plan to turn into three houses for social housing, again, this again is vastly overpriced.

On top of these inflated prices there is going to be huge renovation costs.

So a cash strapped Council turns down planning on two buildings and then pays over the top prices for these buildings and does what they want in terms of planning.

I honestly hate Dudley Council, they’ve got in my way so many times in the past 25 years, the place is run by idiots and possibly worse!