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A plan to open a 24-hour gym in a former factory has been turned down by a council.

The move by D1 Gyms to open in part of the former Trident Steelworks in Albion Road, West Bromwich, has been rejected by Sandwell Council.

The local authority’s planners said the gym went against its ambition to use the former steelworks as land for employment.

The 19-acre site was earmarked for more than 740 homes in Sandwell Council’s plans first adopted in 2012 but the site remains untouched by developers.

The site is earmarked as employment land in the emerging ‘Sandwell Local Plan’ – a blueprint setting out where homes and other developments would be preferred to be built in borough up to 2041.

The heavily-delayed ‘local plan’ is currently being reviewed by a government planning insp

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