After it was utilised as a narcotics safe house, three people received a total of 36 years in prison last year.
To create room for a new tower block, a residence that served as a safe haven for a criminal gang will be razed. Drug-dealing brothers Dylon and Reis Salhan used the five-bed house on Green Street in West Bromwich to stash heroin and crack cocaine until police raided it in 2022.
The two were later imprisoned along with their cousin Gurvinder Dari. On July 3, 2023, at Wolverhampton Crown Court, Reis Salhan, 24, and Dylon Salhan, 25, of Lightwoods Road, Smethwick, as well as Dari, 29, of The Riddings, Cannock, were all given 12-year prison sentences.
Three charges of possessing class A drugs with the intent to supply, three counts of being involved in the production of class A drugs, and one count of possessing class B drugs with the intent to supply were all confessed by the three. The planning committee of Sandwell Council approved the idea to destroy the former five-bed house near the bustling Kenrick Way in order to construct an 11-story tower block housing 60 apartments.
The five-bed home in Green Street, West Bromwich, would be demolished to make way for an 11-storey tower block
department has since signed off on the documentation and made agreements. Claremont Planning stated that further information regarding the 60 apartment building’s layout and the 11-story tower block would be included in a subsequent application that would need to be approved by the council before work could start.
The Kenrick Park estate would have the 60 apartments constructed next to four towering 17-story buildings. Lissimore House, Mountford House, Greenford House, and Kenrick House are the four tower blocks that were constructed in the 1960s. When police raided the Green Street safehouse in 2022, they found a hoard of drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine, along with about £127,000, according to BirminghamLive.
After the July raid of that year, three kilogrammes of cocaine powder valued at £90,000 were discovered by the police. Along with more than eight kilogrammes of cannabis valued at £32,000, officers also discovered more than 450g of crack cocaine and 650g of heroin, which are worth a combined £30,000. In addition, police found around 200 wraps of heroin and cocaine, cutting agents, and more than £126,000 in cash.
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