Author: David Tooley - Local Democracy Reporter

Great British Energy this week announced that Wylfa on Anglesey has been selected as the site for the UK’s first Small Modular Reactor.

Councillor Bentley told the full council on Thursday that SMR’s take up 18 times less space than solar panels.

Veolia proposes the development of four affordable self-build bungalows which would ‘benefit both the company and the local community’.

The site is recorded as a former open cast coal and clay site which was given permission to be used as a tip for waste materials in 1979.

Traffic plan submitted with proposal for children’s home in ‘congested’ part of Telford.

The single-family home at The Nettlefolds, in Hadley, would provide a “nurturing environment” for children aged eight to 17 with emotional and behavioural difficulties and social, emotional, and mental health needs.

A property owner wants to turn a two-storey residential property in suburban Telford into a House in Multiple Occupation (HM0) for six people.

Planners at Telford & Wrekin Council have been told that owner and developer of the house in Churncote, Stirchley, has permitted development rights to make the change.

Councillors found one thing they can agree on when debating the latest dramatic increase in adult social care costs at Telford & Wrekin Council – the need for government action to sort out the issue.

A meeting this week heard how there has been a “significant increase in the number of new people who need long-term residential care” in the just the last three months.

A report delivered to the Police and Crime Panel said that PCC John Campion “has expressed frustration” over the lack of progress over delivering the scheme on the 26.7 mile route of the A41 between the M54 at Tong and the Prees roundabout near Whitchurch.

It comes after a report jointly commissioned by Telford & Wrekin Council and Shropshire Council concluded that an an average speed camera scheme for the road is not recommended.

A popular Telford car park’s automatic number plate cameras and warning signs have been in position for six years without planning permission, it has emerged.

Solicitor Nick Freeman, dubbed “Mr Loophole” for his successes at challenging prosecutions did not mean it is necessarily good news for drivers who want to challenge their parking charges.

A leading councillor is vowing to “fight tooth and nail” as a developer lodges plans for 166 homes to the south of Newport.

The 8.5 hectare site south of The Dale/The Crescent in Church Aston, is one of the development sites identified in the Telford & Wrekin Council local plan which is currently in its review stage.

A by-elections Super Thursday is in the offing in Telford as 14 candidates representing six parties battle for just three seats.

The by-elections in St George’s, Wellington and Oakengates will be held on Thursday, November 20, with Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats fielding candidates in all three seats.

Cuts and ‘efficiencies’ of more than £4million will be needed at Telford & Wrekin Council over the next five months if it is to stay within budget, a report reveals.

Officials at the Labour controlled council have forecast a massive further increase in care costs for elderly people which they say has been identified in the last three months.

A 70-bed care home can be added to a big new development in Newport as long as 20 conditions are met, planners have decided.

Space has been found for the specialist dementia care units at a site that is already being developed for a retirement village on land off Palisade Close

Plans have been lodged for the next 135 homes to be built as part of a 1,100-dwellings development on the outskirts of Telford.

Planning agent Roebuck Planning, based in Milton Keyes, has told Telford & Wrekin Council that the application makes provision for 24 per cent of the homes to be classified as “affordable”.

Developers of a high profile housing site have been told that they should not use holly bushes around a children’s play area because of the festive plant’s thorns.

Planning officials at Shropshire Council have spiked some of the proposed details behind the redevelopment of part of the Ironbridge Power Station site, including for a play area.

A care provider wants to change a seven-bedroom house in Telford into a children’s residential home without going through the full planning application process.

Reward Chitura, of Cynosure HCS, has applied to Telford & Wrekin Council for a Certificate of Lawfulness for the proposed change of use of the property in Dudmaston, Hollinswood.

Fire service leaders in Shropshire have cancelled a popular fundraising Christmas event as budget pressures loom for the organisation.

Councillor Fiona Doran (Donnington West Ward), chairing the meeting said: “I don’t feel comfortable standing at bus stops where someone’s had a pee.”

Cllr says the signs “…are inadequate – I’m sure they’ve got bigger signs in Trumpton.”