Earlier 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.”
Read moreComplaints – 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.
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Reform UK winner Alan Adams with his partner Felicity Wingrove (who was not a candidate) at Thursday's count. Picture: LDRS
Labour held on to the third of the seats – in Wellington’s Haygate ward – where the party did not face a Reform UK challenge but saw off the Conservatives, the Green Party and the Lib Dems.
Alan Adams, a former Navy submariner who finished in second place in Telford in last year’s general election, swept to victory in Oakengates Town Council’s Oakengates and Wombridge Ward.
Read moreAn estimated 100 residents flocked to the village hall in Church Aston on freezing Thursday evening to hear that Councillor Eade, the Conservative group leader at Telford & Wrekin Council and representative for Church Aston & Lilleshall, has “called in” the application for a decision by the planning committee.
Read moreA council’s automatic Ask Tom phone answering system is learning the local language in Telford, councillors have been told.
After the artificial intelligence system was launched as a trial in August 2024 it was condemned by one councillor as “universally awful”.
But clever young Tom is getting better, a report to the audit committee noted.
Read moreA 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.
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Solar panels on the roof of the Pavilion in Hollinswood. Picture: Hollinswood & Randlay Parish Council
A parish council’s achievement in cutting its carbon footprint by 85 per cent drew a “sharp intake of breath” at a recent conference in Telford, a meeting was told.
Hollinswood & Randlay Parish Council has invested more than £120,000 in the last few years on replacing gas with air source heat pumps and solar panels on community buildings.
Read moreNew parking rules have been brought in across Hollinswood & Randlay in recent weeks to deal with town centre workers and shoppers who have been leaving their cars all day in residential areas, especially on Deercote.
Councillors reported that residents have been “really upset” after challenging people over parking who then became “abusive.”
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Parish clerk Katrina Baker MBE. left, and Councillor Sheenagh Unwin with the certificate at Hollinswood & Randlay Parish Council. Picture: LDRS
A parish council in Telford celebrated achieving Founding Member status with a regional cancer charity’s £5m appeal.
Hollinswood & Randlay Parish Council has set about raising at least £2,000 for the Lingen Davies Cancer Support’s Sunflower Appeal.
Read moreResidents in Telford have been urged to continue to report snippets of information to the police following concerns of ‘anti-social behaviour’ in the St George’s area.
Read moreOpponents 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.
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Councillor Stephen Burrell pictured at the Sambrook junction of the A41. Picture: Cllr Stephen Burrell
As a row over the ruling out of average speed cameras on a major Shropshire A-road rumbles on the county’s…
Read moreNow 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.
Read morePrevious 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.
Read moreVolunteers with Allscott Sports and Social Club have applied to Telford & Wrekin Council to install a three-lane cricket training facility and a non-turf cricket pitch at its site in Shawbirch Road.
The application said that a range of sporting and social activities take place at the club including football, bowls and cricket.
Read moreMore robust security fences are planned at a council-owned solar farm in Telford which has suffered ‘criminal damage’, preventing the array generating electricity.
Read moreGovernment ministers – and victims – could step in to try to block the possible second prison release of one of the ringleaders of a notorious Telford grooming gang, it has been confirmed.
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Councillor Steve Bentley going 'nuclear' at Telford & Wrekin Council. Picture: Telford & Wrekin Council
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.
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Councillor Jenny Urey speaking at the full Telford & Wrekin Council. Picture: Telford & Wrekin Council
Councillors have had enough of irresponsible dog owners in Telford & Wrekin but there is concern that there aren’t enough people to enforce the rules.
The full Telford & Wrekin Council got behind a motion calling for the enforcement of a ‘dogs on leads’ policy on agreed designated public areas and highways.
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Chair's vote number one. Councillor Stephen Reynolds vote makes it a 5-5 tie. Picture: Telford & Wrekin Council
Committee members had been deeply divided on how to proceed on the plan for a property in Bridle Walk, Donnington, after the developer and his agent turned up late to Wednesday’s meeting and missed their slot to speak.
Read moreThe council leader has written to the Justice Secretary and the Parole Board to oppose the early release of notorious Telford Grooming Gang member, Ahdel Ali.
Councillors voted cross party to support the final motion during a debate at the full Telford & Wrekin Council on Thursday.
Read morePlanning enforcement officers are ‘investigating’ after construction work appears to have begun at the site of a new Aldi in Telford before developers had received approval over how to deal with an old mine shaft, it has emerged.
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Aerial picture of the site identified for affordable bungalows in New Works, Telford. Picture: Google Maps
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.
Read moreThe separate by-elections in St Georges, Wellington and Oakengates will be held on November 20, with Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats fielding candidates in all three seats.
Reform UK and the Green Party will be standing in two of the three seats while an ‘Oakengates Independent Resident’ is also in the running.
Read moreA second urgent works enforcement notice has been slapped on a dilapidated historic hotel in Newport.
It is the third enforcement notice relating to the Grade II-listed Royal Victoria Hotel, in St Mary’s Street, since a complaint was recorded by Telford & Wrekin Council in January 2020.
Read moreTelford-based Lovemark Care Ltd has lodged a planning application with Telford & Wrekin Council to be able to use the property in Hadley as a residential institution for up to two young people aged 16 to 25.
Planning agent Malm Consulting has provided information about parking arrangements following a request from the council for more information about use of the three-bedroom terraced house in Marlborough Road.
Read moreFinance chiefs at Shrewsbury & Telford Hospitals NHS Trust say they have planned for ‘unexpected’ costs and it remains on track overall to deliver its financial plan by March 2026.
Read moreResidents living near a Telford rubbish site have been given an early warning of a ‘temporary’ increase in smells later…
Read moreThe ‘last straw’ for the top official at Hadley and Leegomery Parish Council happened after her council’s chairman was accused on Facebook of being on her phone at a Remembrance cenotaph.
The councillor has said she was ‘misrepresented’ while putting her phone away and turning it off in preparation for the service.
Read morePlans for two rapid electric vehicle charging stations have been lodged with Telford & Wrekin Council for the car park of the McDonald’s in School Road, Donnington.
Read moreA lack of formal parking at a new £3.6million national archery centre in Shropshire is causing a ‘danger’ to its users, according to a planning agent.
A planning application lodged with Shropshire Council proposes improvements to the unlit access road to the Performance Archery Centre (PAC) at Lilleshall National Sports Centre, including the creation of 49 new formal parking spaces.
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An impression of the new look Lawley Community Centre. Picture: Telford & Wrekin Council/Lawley and Overdale Parish Council
The resident consultation received 199 responses from inside the parish area with 60.3 per cent in support.
Lawley and Overdale Parish Council has plans to increase its share of the council tax by around 44p per week on a Band D property to pay back Telford & Wrekin Council for a proposed 40-year loan at an annual fixed rate of £263,113 per annum.
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The area in Donnington where a healthcare company wants a residential home for children. Picture: Google Maps
A controversial plan for a children’s home in Telford has been recommended for approval by planning officials.
The proposal for a change of use of a house in Bridle Walk, Donnington, saw a parish council face a backlash from residents after it criticised locals for not turning up to a meeting to discuss it.
At a later meeting the parish council decided to oppose the change of use after residents turned out.
Now, councillors at Telford & Wrekin Council’s planning committee are set to decide the matter at a meeting to be held in public this Wednesday
Read moreThe applicant wants to change 1,200 square metres of land next to a property in Middle Lane, Cold Hatton Heath, from agricultural use into a private garden.
But her neighbour has objected, saying that if the garden goes up to his hedge people will be able to look through it. They will also make “additional noise” resulting in “an insurmountable loss of privacy, disturbance, and reduced enjoyment of our property.”
Read moreTraffic 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.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreIt’s over £1million.
When the two new unitary councils were created, Telford & Wrekin Council had to start paying its share of the old Shropshire County Council’s debt.
Payments are scheduled to continue to 2060/61.
Read moreCouncillors 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.
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Councillor Roger Evans, Shropshire Council's portfolio holder for finance. Picture: Shropshire Council and West Mercia Police & Crime Commissioner John Campion. Picture: OPCC
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.
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Councillors Sophia Vaughan-Hodkinson, left, and Councillor Tammy Wood of the still intact Stirchley & Brookside Parish Council. Picture: LDRS
Parish councillors from across Telford were celebrating the survival of their organisations after a borough council committee confirmed a number of changes to the way residents are represented.
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Read moreA 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.
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Site 472 as identified in the draft update to the Telford & Wrekin local plan. Picture: Telford & Wrekin Council
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.
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Yagi three element antenna, similar to the one in question. (Photo © Lz1aat / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).)
A freestanding antenna erected in Telford must be taken down by March next year or a resident could face prosecution.
The enforcement notice published on the council’s website on November 4, 2025, alleges the unauthorised erection of a freestanding antenna. The householder is allowed to lodge an appeal to stop the enforcement process.
Read moreBadly behaved councillors at some parish and town councils in Telford take up a “huge amount of time” for investigators at sort out, a meeting was told.
Two of the complaints were from parish council clerks about ‘bullying and harassment’ by councillors.
Read moreContractors working for supermarket giant Lidl “inadvertently” chopped down woodland as the site was being cleared for a new store that is being built in Telford, it has emerged.
Now the store company is seeking to make amends with a legal agreement and an offer to pay an extra £13,020 following the ‘chop-up’ which happened as the site near the Old Park Roundabout at The Rock
Read moreA 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.
Read moreCuts 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.
Read moreAn ombudsman has thrown out a woman’s complaint that Telford & Wrekin Council had failed to consider her circumstances before taking court action over years of council tax arrears.
Court action was initiated against the woman, referred to as ‘Mrs X’, and she took her complaint about the council’s pursuit of “significant council tax arrears” from 2009 to 2024 to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.
Read moreA 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
Read moreTown councillors are promising to ‘light up Wellington’ with all-new Christmas illuminations this year.
The Shropshire town’s council has an increased budget of £27,500 to spend on putting on a modern show with changeable coloured lights as it looks to get people in the Christmas spirit across the centre of Wellington, Arleston, Brooklands and Shawbirch.
Read moreA Telford family who wanted to build a timber outdoor office to create some extra space were shocked to find their planning application rejected.
Mrs Smith said: “It’s a nice building. I don’t see how it’s going to negatively affect anything. This is Dawley.”
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A shelter at one of the bus stops in Tibberton is looked after by one of the villagers. Picture; LDRS
A parish council leader is ‘very happy’ that concerns about the last bus from Newport to Tibberton and Cherrington being too early in the afternoon have been listened to.
Telford & Wrekin Council recently announced that its Travel Telford 103 service timetable has been changed to add a 5pm bus from Newport amid a raft of tweaks to the six services that the council runs across the borough.
Read morePlans 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”.
Read moreA man who claimed that Telford & Wrekin Council ‘wrongly’ made him and his family homeless has been advised to take the issue to the courts.
The man, known as Mr X, went to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman claiming that there had been a mix up over three offers of accommodation from the council.
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