Author: David Tooley - Local Democracy Reporter

A parish council’s top official has spoken out to reassure the public that it is properly able to handle taxpayers’…

A Sikh temple’s plans to host up to 30 weddings with up to 881 guests each time has been rejected…

Members of the public can now make official comments on plans to build 212 new homes on the site of…

Plans have been lodged to turn two next door properties in Telford into houses of multiple occupation (HMO) with a…

A council has confirmed that an ‘untidy land notice’ has been slapped on a property in Telford. A complaint about…

Draft accounts show council ended year with a surplus as officials point to ‘challenging’ future ahead of Rachel Reeves’ spending…

Details of a new public park at the centre of a huge new housing development in Telford have been released….

A cross party committee of senior councillors is set to grill candidates for a top paying council job. The role…

Freedom of Information requests to Telford & Wrekin Council boomed by 22 per cent last year, including at least one…

Bug-killing ultraviolet equipment was installed at a Shropshire water borehole after bacteria was found there, planning documents reveal. Documents lodged…

Up to 40 vehicles could be entering part of a huge building site every weekday for the next four years…

An eco-campaigning Shropshire vicar is supporting a family in its fight against plans for a battery energy site on land…

Health leaders have been told that they are “a long way” from delivering national guidance for people in Shropshire with…

The Priory Nursing Home, in Spring Hill, appealed to the Planning Inspectorate after Telford & Wrekin Council rejected the proposal….

Young people’s mental wellbeing remains a “significant cause for concern” in Telford & Wrekin says a report. Councillors are set…

People in Muxton & Lilleshall live an average of 8.2 years longer than residents in Woodside as life expectancy rates…

New Mayor of Telford Eileen Callear set out her civic stall as a champion of diversity and revealed that she…

Newport’s Christmas lights switch on event will last for one full day, a meeting heard. As the Shropshire town’s love…

A controversial plan for up to 85 homes in a village near Newport has been withdrawn by the developers after…

Health leaders say there have been ‘significant improvements’ in access to GP services in Telford & Wrekin since the publication…

A planning inspector has overturned a council decision to reject a man’s plan for a self-build dwelling after being guided…

Hospital trust leaders have set out how they are working to speed up cancer diagnostics and treatment in Shropshire as…

A second round of consultation into plans that could see parish councils being created, abolished, merged or altered has been…

A proposed house would not have enough sun in the summer to be healthy, a council has ruled in rejecting…

A building that a parish council controversially decided to sell – and later said had been sold – is back…

One parish council will cease to exist, while others will be created, shaken up or merged if councillors agree to…

Council planners have thrown out a proposal to convert a dilapidated family house in Wellington into a HMO for 12 people….

Drainage experts have put a holding objection on plans to build a block of 15 affordable flats behind a pub…

Parish councils in Telford are being put in the cross hairs for possible changes under a review of boundaries in…

Independent candidate Helen Barker won the Ketley Parish Council by-election in Telford by just nine votes. Mrs Barker beat off…

A resident has been authorised to chop down a fast-growing tree that she says risks pushing over an historic wall on…

Health and council leaders across the Midlands have more to do before they can “respond appropriately” to the next pandemic,…