[3] In 1878, Wolverhampton Council using provisions in the Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875 bought land and laid out streets and sewers for a planned 290 houses for people displaced from slum clearances in the town centre.

[4] The brewery opened in 1873 after William Butler and Company had outgrown its existing site at Priestfield in the south east of Wolverhampton.

Springfield had an abundance of water from natural springs, and the land had remained undeveloped because the ground was marshy.

The company acquired a seven-acre site, partly bordering Grimstone Street and built a new brewery with maltings, cooperage and stables.

The good communications also made the acquisition of public houses in other areas a viable proposition, especially when the Great Western Railway extended a siding into the site.

Between 1881 and 1883 a new brewing tower was constructed, enabling William Butler and Company to increase production from 400 to 1,500 barrels a week.

The RIBA Journal describes the School of Architecture building's west facade as having a modern method of construction (MMC) aesthetic with repeating bays of precast concrete, red, brown and gold coloured metal cladding panels, windows of vertical louvres and a saw-tooth shaped roof.

The 1,900 sq.m modular building, designed by Associated Architects houses a research and innovation centre, which includes laboratories to analyse soil samples and drainage conditions.

One of the Institute's assets is Spot, a robotic dog designed by Boston Dynamics fitted with scanners to scan potentially dangerous industrial land.

[2] Since 2000, the former factory sites of Chubb and Gunnebo off Woden Road have given way to housing on Tumbler Grove and Charles Drive respectively.

Likewise, the Springfield Brewery's maintenance yard, now Peterhill Close; here the original brick walls on Cambridge Road have been retained though reduced in height.

The fellowship originated in Stafford Street, Wolverhampton in 1953 and was the first New Testament Church of God in the United Kingdom.

The Church bought the nearby Traveller's Rest public house in 1996, renamed it New Trust Centre and uses the building for community support programmes.

In July 2021 it was announced that the site of Wolverhampton Council's Culwell Street depot and office building is set to be redeveloped.

[29] Funding from the West Midlands Combined Authority for the demolition of existing buildings and site clean-up was secured in November 2022.