Category: Housing

Today the final informal public consultation opens into the development proposals for Shropshire for the period up until 2038 – how our county and communities will be shaped over the next eighteen years. The ‘Local Plan Review’ covers a number of development proposals, including employment land, but this article focuses on housing. The development of…

This afternoon, Shropshire Council published the agenda for its Cabinet meeting to be held on 20th July. The main topic of the meeting is “Shropshire Local Plan Review – Pre-submission Consultation Document”. The document runs to 534 pages and, in brief, it seeks approval for the Pre-Submission Draft of the Shropshire Local Plan, and to trigger…

Shropshire Council has sought your views on a new proposal for 120 houses to be constructed between Hunters Gate and Bridgnorth Road. This is not a planning application, but a proposed allocation for housing development over the period up to 2038 – apparently intended to replace the 80-dwelling proposal which went out for consultation in…

In November 2018 Shropshire Council announced its “preferred sites” for more housing in Cressage and Much Wenlock, including 80 dwellings at Bridgnorth Road. Shropshire Council’s Local Plan Review requires around 150 new houses in Much Wenlock by 2036. Around 45 are already built or have consent, leaving 105 to find. On 31st January, Shropshire Council received…

Storm Ciara swept across the whole of the UK on Sunday 9th February, bringing heavy rain and very strong winds. There was some alarm at its likely impact in Shropshire, but it is largely forgotten in Much Wenlock now. Its effect upon the town was dwarfed by Storm Dennis one week later. Overnight on 15th/16th February…

Under its Local Plan Review, Shropshire Council is working on development plans for the period up to 2036. In Much Wenlock it seems that an additional 150 homes during that period is accepted as reasonable by many residents, although there has been considerable concern about the proposed site for 80 houses off Bridgnorth Road, which…

Harworth, the developers of the Ironbridge Power Station site held a stakeholders’ event this morning to look at the emerging masterplan for the site. The whole of the design team were said to be on site, including minerals specialist and highways consultants. Those attending included representatives from Shropshire Council’s economic development team, William Brookes School, Priorslee and…

Shropshire Council’s Local Plan Review is attracting much interest – and nowhere more than in Much Wenlock. There was standing room only in Priory Hall for the “preferred sites” presentation on 3rd January, there were interested residents at the Town Council’s Planning Committee meeting on 8th January, and every seat was taken in the Guildhall…

On 17th January Much Wenlock Town Council met to “consider the  Much Wenlock section of the Local Plan Review – Preferred Sites and to agree the Town Council’s response to Shropshire Council.” The casual observer might have believed that what was intended was a overview of the various site proposals that had been submitted to…

On 3rd January, I chaired a public meeting at Priory Hall for a presentation of Shropshire Council’s Local Plan Review. The room was packed with standing room (and not much of it) only. Adrian Cooper, Shropshire Council’s Planning Policy & Strategy Manager, set out the need for the Local Plan Review and the background to…