Rowley Regis is a community and historical parish as well as a previous community borough, in the Birmingham region of the West Midlands, England. Taken into consideration one of the 6 'communities' that make up the modern Sandwell Metropolitan District, it encompasses the wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath and also Old Hill, and Rowley Town. At the 2011 census, the consolidated population of Rowley Regis was 50,257. Originally in Staffordshire, the Rowley Regis Urban Area was created in 1894 to cover the towns of Rowley, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, as well as Old Hill. The metropolitan district was included into a community borough in 1933. Adhering to the procurement of borough status, plans were revealed to develop brand-new council offices in the district to replace the existing offices in Lawrence Lane, Old Hill. A site on the edge of Halesowen Road and also Barrs Road was chosen, with functioning commencing in October 1937, and the structure being finished in December 1938. The city government framework within North Worcestershire and South Staffordshire-- Before the West Midlands Order 1965 reorganisation. In 1966, the district of Rowley Regis merged with the boroughs of Oldbury as well as Smethwick to create the Warley County Borough, and also entered into Worcestershire. There had formerly been strategies to integrate Rowley Regis into a broadened Dudley borough, as well as for Halesowen to join up with Oldbury and also Smethwick rather. 8 years later, in 1974, on the formation of the West Midlands Metropolitan region, Warley merged with West Bromwich to form the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough. It is currently ideal in the core of the West Midlands conurbation.
