Highlights

Telford & Wrekin Council officers had refused permission for the former Wrekin Housing Trust building at The Parade saying that it did not have its own dedicated parking.

Building owner Lewis Jones had appealed against the decision and a planning inspector has agreed with an assessment that the local streets had enough empty spaces to cope.

-Demand for Adult Social Care (ASC) is continuing to rise

-20.5% of the population in Telford are disabled

-18,000 people are providing unpaid care

-One of the biggest challenges for the borough remains health inequalities

The house in Dudmaston, Hollinswood, is already a four-bed HMO but owner Sheer Assets Ltd wanted to build a single-storey rear extension to increase that to six.

The applicant has been told that they have a right to appeal if they are aggrieved by the decision.

Mark Pritchard MP said: “The NHS says it is waiting for EHRC guidance, but it is the Equality Act that organisations must comply with, and the position in law has already been made crystal clear by the Supreme Court judgment.

“To ensure safety and privacy, in particular for women and girls, single sex spaces must be protected in NHS hospitals and other NHS facilities.”

Upon arrival, crews discovered a single vehicle which had rolled onto its roof. Firefighters used winches and small gear to right the car back onto its wheels.

Fire crews have been kept busy following a series of callouts across the town.

Police closed the road for a short time yesterday evening after a Peugeot crashed into roadside barriers.

Emergency services were called to the A518 in Newport on Sunday afternoon following a serious collision.

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service received the report at 15:45 after a single vehicle ended up on its roof.

The incident happened at around 1.25pm.

Five fire appliances, including a specialist rescue tender, were sent to the scene from Telford Central and Wellington.

The development on Haygate Road will consist of a three-storey block of one and two-bedroom flats on the brownfield land where the well-known local landmark once stood.

Diggers were spotted rolling into the site, and starting work on footings, after a sold sign was added to the estate agents board.

A 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.

Attempts 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.

A 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.

Police are concerned that having longer opening hours to sell alcohol and provide more hours of live and recorded music, karaoke and comedy nights could increase anti-social behaviour at Dragon Soul in Newport.

Randlay Primary School received a £250 prize after its pupil Amelia, aged nine, won a public vote to design a new flag for the Borough.

The prize of £250 was donated to the flag competition by Telford Live.

Shifnal Dental Care, which has been in the town since 1971, relocated to the former Odfellows Wine Bar in Market Place last year following a state-of-the-art refurbishment.

In October, practice owner Dr Maciej Wozniak submitted an application for permission to turn the first floor into an HMO.

​Firefighters were called out to the Southwater area on Friday night after a diner became trapped in the toilets at Nando’s.

Head teachers and leaders from local schools visited Telford College to learn more about potential placement opportunities they could offer to T Level students.

A delegation from the Learning Community Trust, which runs more than a dozen school sites across the county, visited the college’s Wellington campus to chat with students on business and accounting courses.

An 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.

A 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”.

Abandoned 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”.

Telford property hunters are buzzing over a unique opportunity to acquire a charming two-bedroom barn conversion which is heading to online auction with a guide price of just £60,000.

Firefighters were called to Cockshutt Lane in Broseley on Tuesday evening following reports of a vehicle fire.

Emergency services arrived at the scene shortly before 7pm to find a 4×4 vehicle well alight. One fire appliance was mobilised from Tweedale to deal with the incident.

A chunk of land, described as a “prime investment opportunity,” has come onto the market in St Georges, offering local residents and investors a chance to snap up almost half an acre of amenity land with a guide price of just £6,000 at auction…

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.

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Charity has opened its festive grotto at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) to mark the start of a new campaign supporting children’s services.

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.

Nuplace tenants are beginning to move into new homes in St Georges as a major regeneration project.

The brand new new homes for private rent starting at £900 per month, located at the Gower, are now ready for occupation.

Christmas came early for some Telford and Shropshire families last week as an independent hotel opened its doors to support Little Stars Charity.

Hadley Park House Hotel has a packed programme of Christmas events, but staff took time out of their busy schedule to put on a magical Christmas party for families facing the challenges of the continuing cost-of-living crisis.

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.

Telford College’s student council is supporting a campaign to reduce the number of young people affected by suicide.

The student council said it selected the ‘really meaningful’ charity because of its work to shatter the stigma surrounding suicide, and to equip young people and their communities with the skills to recognise and respond to emotional distress.

Students at a Newport school have been putting their artistic skills to good use to create special greetings cards for the festive season.

Three winners were chosen: Year seven students Ivy Wrighton, Hollie Roberts, and Sofia Buckless.

This year’s projects attracted an impressive £145,221 in match funding, bringing the total investment to over £415,000 and demonstrating the fund’s ability to unlock additional resources and amplify its impact.

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.