This corridor is a typical Black Country mix of homes and industry which skirts
Walsall town centre and extends alongside the railway and canals to the
north. Its key potential is one of a mix of renewal and redevelopment to evolve
new attractive residential canalside communities with access to local industrial
jobs and, in particular, to the centres of Walsall, Wolverhampton and
Birmingham. The Wyrley & Essington and Walsall canals, the A34 and Pleck
Road, and the Walsall to Cannock railway connect the area.