What's next for the former Rover factory at Longbridge? Meet the West Midlander finding out

Описание: Meet Charles, one of the workers who devoted their career to working at the world-famous Longbridge car plant.

After lying derelict for years, the long-awaited regeneration of the once iconic West Works in Longbridge is well on the way to completion as hundreds of new homes and a major business park take shape on the site of the former car factory.

The 75-acre West Works project – bigger in size than London’s Kings Cross redevelopment - is just the latest phase in a £1 billion regeneration of the colossal Rover car plant which at its peak employed more than 25,000 people.

The project, featuring 350 homes and a 900,000 sq ft of business premises creating 5,000 new jobs, was unlocked by a £6 million investment three years ago from the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) as part of its nationally acclaimed ‘brownfield first’ programme which targets new housing on former industrial sites.

Hear more from Charles on the project and his thoughts about the site today decades after its closure.

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