Telford & Wrekin Council has now been given permission by its own development controllers for a new 3m-high fence to be installed around the site at Wheat Leasows following an assessment period.
Objections from members of the public included an opponent of the solar farm who wrote: “Ripping out a hedge adjacent to this very busy rat run in January will cause considerable disruption.
Read moreA new convenience store is set to open in Wellington, a planning application has revealed.
The One Stop brand has confirmed that it will be opening a new franchise in King Street next year.
Read moreThree Telford town centre car parks – one disused and the other two currently active – could be turned over for development if major issues can be overcome.
Some 158 houses could take the land at the Blue Willow car park while another 138 could be built on the next door Lime Green Car Park (Odeon cinema).
Read moreA Telford resident is in a tangle with planners after building a storage unit on a parking space without first getting planning permission.
There are also issues with “misaligned corrugated sheeting“, a “wonky chimney” and plans allegedly not matching up with what a planning officer found had been built.
Read moreAttempts to sell the pub have proved fruitless, applicant Mr H Kumar told Telford & Wrekin Council planners. Mr Kumar also owns the nearby Bell and Bails pub and restaurant.
Read moreA landowner in Wellington has applied for planning permission to demolish a bungalow and replace it with eight new homes in two new three-storey buildings.
The new buildings would replace one three-bedroom bungalow on a plot at Constitution Hill, Wellington, with two townhouses and a total of six apartments.
Read moreA decision-making committee meeting in Telford was halted when only two out of its 10 members managed to make it to the council chamber.
The rules require three councillors to be present to make decisions.
Read morePotential developers of a vacant site close to Newport town centre have withdrawn plans to build nine homes to consider options following council feedback.
Staffordshire-based MAG Developments Ltd has told Telford & Wrekin Council planners that it is “disappointed and perplexed” by the council’s feedback about requirements for the site.
Read moreLondon-based agent Montagu Evans has told the planners at Telford & Wrekin Council that interest in retail park investment is coming from the larger retail operators.
“Recent market activity and enquiries have indicated that interest is increasingly being driven by larger format retail operators who typically require greater internal floor areas to support their operational models.” the agents wrote.
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Aerial image of the wooded area near Lincoln Hill, Ironbridge, which used to be home to a quarry filled in by a waste tip. Picture: Google Maps
A couple’s plan to have a basement at their proposed replacement home in the Ironbridge Gorge have been withdrawn after…
Read moreAn enforcement notice has been slapped on a property in Telford after the borough council received a complaint about alleged untidy land.
The notice was served on the property in Beckbury Drive, Stirchley, on December 12 this year after Telford & Wrekin Council received a complaint on October 20.
Read moreA householder has been refused retrospective planning permission for work carried out on a house in Wellington after officials alleged that it had broken the rules.
Planners wrote that it is “considered disproportionate in size in relation to the existing host dwelling, being substantial in scale and massing”.
Read moreAbandoned shopping trolleys continue to be an issue in parts of Telford despite a parish council’s best efforts, a meeting heard.
Parish warden Glyn Johnson, who picks up abandoned trolleys from across the area, said that there has been a “big improvement” in the abandoned trolley situation but the “only downfall is kids moving them, but you are always going to get that”.
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Aerial picture of the site identified for affordable bungalows in New Works, Telford. Picture: Google Maps
“As a fourth-generation family from New Works, we have deep ties to the village and its heritage,” wrote one objector.
“Throughout our family’s lifetime, there has never been a demonstrated need for further development here.”
Read moreA plan to convert an historic Newport building into a dental surgery with flats has been withdrawn after heritage concerns were raised.
Britannia House Dental Surgery is planning to move from New Street in Newport into a Grade II-listed three-storey building in St Mary’s Street in the town centre.
Read moreThe plans for an HMO in Donnington have been withdrawn for a second time, but it may not be the end of the story…
Read moreA popular Telford car park’s automatic number plate cameras and warning signs finally have planning permission after six years without consent.
Planners have granted retrospective planning permission for two ANPR cameras and 14 warning signs near the KFC and Starbucks at Trench Lock, in Hadley, that were installed on October 9, 2019.
Read morePlanners have refused permission for a high-tech BT Street Hub in Telford town centre, saying it would have an “unacceptable impact on highway and pedestrian safety”.
The street hub would have been on land next to Coffee #1 in Northfield Street, near the southern entrance to Telford Centre.
Read moreAs Telford & Wrekin Council is facing booing budget pressures from rising care costs David Tooley tells the story of a woman battling for her rights as a disabled person.
Read moreTwo historic museum buildings in the Ironbridge Gorge can be redecorated and repaired, planners have agreed.
Parts of both the Enginuity building and the Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust offices were found to require “immediate attention” when specialist architects carried out a five-yearly inspection in 2021.
Read moreA church, college, residents and businesses in Wellington have united in uproar against a plan for more food trucks in a car park behind a town centre restaurant.
Residents say they are already suffering with people gathering, drinking and urinating in the street and fear the issues will be exacerbated if the plan relating to a car park behind the Carpathian Bear is approved.
Read moreA Telford resident has told planners how unsafe they feel with the way the area around their home has changed over the last 12 years.
The woman from Dudmaston in Hollinswood was responding to a council consultation over a care company’s plan to change a seven-bedroom house in Telford into a children’s home.
Read moreA Telford couple have been told by a planning inspector that they can only sell their £500,000 home to an agricultural worker.
The sale particulars state that the house is a five bedroom, three bathroom “unique family home set within approximately three acres of paddocks and woodland.”
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The area in Donnington where a healthcare company wants a residential home for children. Picture: Google Maps
Objectors claimed that there would not be enough parking at the property in Bridle Walk, Donnington, to prevent visitors from having to park on the street.
Read morePlans for a children’s home in Telford have been passed despite a large number of objections from the local community.
More than 50 objections had been made from the public and Wellington Town Council had twice objected after plans that were changed went out for consultation on two occasions.
Read morePlans to change a hand car wash at a Telford town centre hotel have been withdrawn, planners have confirmed.
Valentin Gjoka had applied for planning permission to relocate a container used as a staff room and store onto a grass verge at the Mercure Telford Centre Hotel, in Forge Gate.
Read moreDonnington and Muxton Parish Council had organised a children’s party for under-13s at Turreff Hall earlier this month and had posted a limited number of pictures on social media.
Councillor Sonja Randhawa (Muxton Ward) said: “I just think this is a potential safeguarding issue.”
Read moreOne three-bed bungalow on the edge of Bowring Park could become two if a housing company’s plan to replace a property in Wellington is passed by planners.
Telford-based Wrekin Housing Group has applied to council planners to knock down its unoccupied three-bed bungalow in Haygate Road and replace it with two semi-detached three-bed properties.
Read moreA local resident told officials at Telford & Wrekin Council that Churncote in Stirchley “is a small family street with inadequate parking for the current residents”.
They added that proposing to add six cars to one household is “ridiculous and will cause more issues”.
Read moreA community car park’s one-way system will have to be reconfigured before a three-storey block of flats can be built on vacant land behind a pub in Telford.
Read morePlanners at Telford & Wrekin Council have told Rowton Brewery that more information about bats was needed before they can give consent for work to the roof and chimney at The Bridge Inn, at Lower Bar.
In the meantime Rowton, which took over the Grade II-listed pub earlier this year, has been given permission to repaint the pub in the Newport conservation area from black and brown to black and white.
Read moreTributes have flooded in after the death of a ‘titan’ of local government in Telford.
Councillor Malcolm Smith BEM had been a councillor at parish and borough level for more than 50 years and served on Hadley and Leegomery Parish Council, the former Wrekin Council and its successor Telford & Wrekin Council.
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Councillor Andrew Eade speaking at Telford & Wrekin Council's cabinet meeting on Thursday, December 4, 2025. Picture: Telford & Wrekin Council
Familiar divisions reopened as councillors clashed over housebuilding targets in Telford and Wrekin. Telford & Wrekin Council’s Conservative opposition leader…
Read moreHealth and safety rules are proving to be an insurmountable obstacle when it comes to hanging a ‘Merry Christmas’ sign from a bridge in Telford, a meeting heard.
The sign at a pedestrian and cycle bridge over Britannia Way in Hadley had been a feature of the festive season and its absence has prompted comments and speculation on social media.
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Councillor Lee Carter smiles as he delivers a joke towards his opposite number at a cabinet meeting on December 4, 2025. Picture: Telford & Wrekin Council
A council leader’s pre-Christmas joke about finding the money to send his opposite number permanently to Llandudno brought the house down at a meeting this week.
Councillors were discussing making a commitment to their £5,000-each Pride Fund which has been used to support community projects when Telford & Wrekin Council’s leader and opposition chief entered a light-hearted tangle.
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Telford & Wrekin Council's cabinet met at Southwater One on Thursday, December 4, 2025. Picture: LDRS
Landlords of houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in Telford will face paying for stricter rules under council plans to tighten planning and licensing regimes.
Telford & Wrekin Council’s ruling cabinet has decided that now is the right time to go for a range of measures because of the impact that concentrations of HMOs are having on parts of the borough.
Read moreOne of the proposals, for a property in Donnington, will return to Telford & Wrekin Council’s planning committee for a second time after councillors deferred a decision to go on a site visit.
The other plan for a home for up to three children in Dothill saw 57 objections, including from Wellington Town Council, and was called in to be decided at Wednesday’s meeting by councillor Karen Tomlinson (Liberal Democrats, Shawbirch & Dothill).
Read moreHomeowners in a village near Newport are in ‘major distress’ over back garden flooding caused by a ‘brick and tree stumps’ blocking a pipe which has been going on for a year, says a councillor.
Councillor Eade says it severely floods gardens to a ‘considerable depth when it overflows due to the blockage.’ and urged Severn Trent to get on with the job.
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Ann Lombardi, chairs the trustees at Four Hills Education Trust, and attended Hadley & Leegomery Parish Council. Picture: LDRS
Ann Lombardi, who chairs the trustees at Four Hills Education Trust, told councillors at Hadley and Leegomery Parish Council that Millbrook Primary School and Nursery is a part of the trust which held a launch event recently.
Read moreThe water tests recorded that for the “chemical parameters analysed, no pollution was identified”.
A spokesperson for the EA said: “We understand local concerns and our officers have responded by testing the water in July and September which showed there was no pollution in the brook.
“The Hurley Brook is not a designated bathing water and is unlikely to become one due to its location being within the urban area of Telford.”
Read moreDevelopers who built two bungalows in Telford nearly 10 inches higher than approved have been allowed to keep the ground level changes, despite objections.
Residents and St George’s and Priorslee Parish Council objected to the retrospective application from Ashlee Homes for the properties in Freeston Avenue, St Georges.
Read moreCouncillors at Hadley & Leegomery Parish Council have pulled the plug on the controversial sale of Hadley Cemetery Lodge.
A meeting was told that a bid made for the lodge, in Hadley Park Road, fell though partly because of a campaign against the sale by “saboteurs” but also that the council’s finances have improved.
Read moreA Telford-based care company has applied to the council to change the use of a house in Leegomery to use it for supported living for young people.
Everready Health and Social Care Solutions plans to use the two storey mid-terrace property for up to three residents, aged 16-25, ‘when they are ready to live independently in the community.’
Read moreTelford homeowners are asking for immunity from council enforcement action over the continued use of a chalet on their land as a home.
The chalet at Lincoln Hill, Ironbridge, was allowed to be used as a living space only for the previous occupiers who used it as a granny annexe until she died.
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The health and wellbeing board met at Telford & Wrekin Council on Thursday, November 27, 2025. Picture: LDRS
The Connect to Work programme has had its first three successes in breaking down barriers to employment in its first month of operation, out of a total of 28 referrals.
An official for the programme told Telford and Wrekin’s Health & Wellbeing Board that he had seen some of the ‘heartfelt’ emails sent in from people wanting to be a part of the programme that is paid for by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Read moreA Shropshire hospitals chief has told other county health leaders that everything is “on track” for their winter preparations.
The board of NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin heard that a key date is Monday, December 1, when new beds and arrangements at the acute hospitals in Shrewsbury and Telford start to become available.
Read moreI’ve demolished many a Greggs but rarely had one come straight back up again…
EG On The Move took over the 24 hour Shawbirch Petrol Station earlier in 2025 and applied to Telford & Wrekin Council to make major changes to the site at the Shawbirch crossroads north of Wellington.
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Location of dental practices in Telford & Wrekin delivering NHS services. Picture: NHS Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin
Health officials are ‘hopeful’ that they will find dentists to fill a longstanding gap in NHS provision in southeast Telford.
A meeting was told that ‘golden hello’ payments are being offered to dentists and support staff as well as an increase in the amount that they can get paid for carrying out work for the NHS.
Read moreWoodcote Quarry, at Woodcote, straddles the border of Telford & Wrekin Council’s and Shropshire Council’s areas and operator NRS Aggregates Limited has applied to both planning authorities to extend its life by 10 years to 2045.
A decision from Shropshire Council, the lead authority, is awaited but Telford & Wrekin Council has set down 28 conditions to deal with dust, protection of water from pollution and other matters.
Read moreShropshire NHS chiefs were told that there has been a “slightly bumpy” handover from long term provider Shropdoc but a hospital chief praised HealthHero for being “incredible” and a meeting was told there have been no patient incidents.
Read moreCouncillor Holding said the idea would have to be put on the “back burner” but it’s “full steam ahead” for events at Christmas.
Read morePlanners at Telford & Wrekin Council have told Elpis Children Services Limited that they accept that four young adults and carers can form a household meaning that there is no technical change of use of a property in Great Dawley.
The decision means that the company does not have to go through the full planning application process for the move.
Read moreWellington groups are setting out to celebrate the life of one of its most significant sons.
William Withering, who was born in Wellington in 1741, is now immortalised in a plethora of academic books on botany – and in the name of the town’s Wetherspoons.
Read moreEarlier this year Telford & Wrekin Council was given £50,984 to after the Government announced plans to implement a national targeted supervised toothbrushing programme for children aged three, four and 5 years in the most deprived communities.
This week the council’s health and wellbeing board will be updated on how the Brilliant Brushers scheme is doing.
Read moreThe Prescription Ordering Direct (POD) service is being decommissioned and phased out by the end of November. The phone- and email-based system was introduced in 2016/17 to help reduce medicine waste.
But a review found that it duplicated what some GP practices and the NHS app was already doing. Its cost on the local health and care system was put at more than £1 million each year.
Read moreArchitects have told Telford & Wrekin Council that the ground floor of the Long Warehouse at Coalport China Museum has been subjected to regular flooding.
This, says Stephen Oliver of Oliver Architecture in Birmingham, means “the high humidity left within the building contributes to the failing of internal decorations”.
Read moreA furniture shop in Telford is set to be turned into a gym if planners approve the move.
Agents for the owners of Telford Bridge Retail Park at Colliers Way say there is an agreement with a gym operator to take the unit.
Read moreShropshire’s fire service has been hit by an un-anticipated £400,000 increase in its rates bill after work at Telford’s fire station increased the value of the property, a meeting was told.
“That figure is currently with a consultant who is working on an appeal on that number to verify that that number is in fact correct.” said Joanne Coadey, the head of finance at the fire authority.
Read moreLast year the Shropshire and Wrekin Fire and Rescue Authority estimated that a national agreement would lead to a pay award of two per cent – but staff were given a 3.2 per cent increase instead.
A meeting was told this week that the authority dug into ‘contingencies’ to be able to find the extra £150,000 for this year.
Read moreThe question, submitted by the party’s co-ordinator Pat McCarthy, asked: “Will this council recognise the genocide in Gaza, as concluded by the UN, and end our financial complicity?
“The situation demands that you halt all spending on Israeli goods and divest our pension funds from Israeli assets. To do otherwise is to make our community complicit in these atrocities.”
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