Author: David Tooley - Local Democracy Reporter

A 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.

Two 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.

A 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.

Plans 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.

Plans to change a hand car wash at a Telford town centre hotel have been withdrawn, planners have confirmed.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.

A 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.

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.

Telford 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.

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.

Shropshire 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.

Architects 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”.

Last 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.

Complaints – and compliments – directed to Telford & Wrekin Council have been rising as it continues to see “significant demand, rising expectations and increased pressure on all its services”, councillors were told.

The MyTelford app saw 86,749 jobs logged on it during 2024/25.

A care company has withdrawn an application to use a terraced house in Telford as a children’s home after council planners raised concerns, the council has confirmed

Agents for Lovemark Care Ltd have responded after Telford & Wrekin Council officials raised issues of parking arrangements at the property in Hadley and over engagement with its care commissioning team.

Opponents of plans to build 166 homes south of Newport are set to marshal their forces for a big push in advance of a looming public consultation deadline.

Church Aston Parish Council and Telford & Wrekin Councillor Andrew Eade will be hosting a ‘drop-in session’ at the village hall on Thursday evening (November 20) for objectors to the Bellway Homes plan at Church Aston.

Now the council has set a date of December 4 this year, when its ruling Labour cabinet is set to make what it calls key decisions on both the housing strategy and on new moves in the market for HMOs.

In other council areas, such as Walsall and Birmingham, Article 4 directions (A4D) mean that homeowners who want to convert houses into HMOs for up to six tenants lose permitted development rights and have to apply for planning permission.

Previous plans to convert The Poplars at Wellington Road, Donnington, into a 10-bed HMO were withdrawn to be replaced by a new proposal with two fewer beds.

Two residents in Wellington Road have already objected to the new plan which is out for a period of public consultation by Telford & Wrekin Council.