Highlights

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”.

​A major stretch of the Holyhead Road in Telford is set to close for six days as resurfacing work is carried out, affecting traffic and several key bus services.

​The road near Snedshill will be completely shut between 8am on Monday, 27 October, and Saturday, 1 November.

Voters across Telford will have a wider choice in the upcoming parish and town council by-elections after the Liberal Democrats confirmed they are contesting all three seats. This move follows a number of recent elections where the party has had no representation, sparking local debate about limited voter options.

Firefighters successfully rescued an 11-year-old dog that had become stuck in a culvert near the Youth Hostel on High Street, Coalport.

Half a dozen cars were written off or damaged as a Vauxhall veers off Bridgnorth Road at Tweedale into Court Autos.

Shifnal Town Council has launched the tender process to find a contractor to design and build a major new play area at Wheatfield Drive.

The total budget for all three sites is expected to be between £320,000 and £370,000, depending on final designs.

All funding has been sourced from the Community Infrastructure Levy, collected from new housing developments in the town.

The former “Blue School” in Ironbridge, named after its distinctive blue bricks, is to be sold at auction next month with an enticing guide price of £100,000.

The old Church of England School in St Luke’s Road, which was built in the late 1850s and closed in 1969, will be going under the hammer at estate agents and auctioneers Halls’ Collective Property and Land Auction in Shrewsbury on November 28.

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.

Overall crime continues to fall in West Mercia according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics which registered a drop across the board.

Delivering on Police and Crime Commissioner John Campion’s commitment to ‘Cutting crime’, as out in his Safer Communities Plan, total recorded crime fell by 4% between July 2024 and June 2025. This follows a 6% drop recorded earlier in the year.

A planning statement submitted by Libre Solutions on behalf of Global Media Group says Street Hub is a partnership with BT that provide ultra fast public and encrypted Wi-Fi, enables rapid devise charging through secure power only USB ports, permits free calls and displays community and emergency awareness messaging.

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.

From Monday, October 27 to Sunday, November 2, all single journeys on Travel Telford services will be reduced to just 50 pence.

This pricing will apply to routes 99, 100, 101, 102, and 103, and forms part of the council’s ongoing commitment to providing accessible, affordable, and reliable public transport for residents across the borough.

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.”

Surprise as road closes with ‘one day’s notice’ for ‘experiment’

The Trust is now performing in the top half of the country for the proportion of patients who wait less than six weeks for their diagnostic test.

The event, from 5pm to 8pm, will give families the chance to experience the school under new principal Sarah Barton.

Rather than the surgeon holding the laparoscope and surgical instruments, they are held and
moved by robotic ‘arms’ which the surgeon controls from a console in the operating theatre.

Some 7,020 adult victims in the borough have experienced domestic abuse at some point in the last year, the council estimates.

Wombridge and Lawley primary schools were two of 300 schools across the country to be given a slice of £37million for new nursery provision.

Pupils from seven local primary schools were invited to join the Wellington school’s own students and staff to try out a range of colourful experiments in the new building, before the ribbon was officially cut by the town’s mayor.

A charitable trust which provides services to more than 9,000 households has been judged to be in the top 25 per cent of housing organisations nationally for dealing with issues like anti-social behaviour.

Councillor Lee Carter, Leader of Telford & Wrekin Council, said: “We’re committed to putting residents at the heart of everything we do and carrying out a regular resident survey is one way we can hear from people as we look to continually improve our services to meet peoples’ needs.

Elite Investments Limited is seeking to transform the Holy Trinity Church Hall in Telford into a community hall, moving away from its current martial arts centre use. The planning application includes requests for a new boundary fence, wall, and disabled facilities, aiming to enhance community accessibility and safety while preserving local heritage.

Scheduled to be finished in July 2026, the new facility will allow the academy to consolidate its provision on a single site by bringing together students currently based at its Dawley site.

The plans had been met with mixed reactions from residents and local councillors.