Islabikes to move from Bromfield to Ludford to accommodate growth
andybodders Islabikes is a growing company based on the Ludlow Food Centre site in Bromfield. It wants to expand and is apply for a permission for works to adapt a unit…
Business rate relief good news for Ludlow and Shropshire’s market towns
Chancellor Philip Hammond yesterday afternoon announced a significant but temporary reduction in business rates for smaller retail businesses. This is good news for market towns like Ludlow. For the next…
Oswestry and Shrewsbury get most of Shropshire Council’s investment cash – Ludlow gets a few crumbs
Numbers dug out by a Bridgnorth resident reveal that the north of the county gets the lion’s share of Shropshire Council’s capital investment. The spend per head in Shrewsbury, Oswestry…
Traders vans to be banned from parking in town centre without paying full rates
Currently market traders can purchase a waiver to allow all day parking in the town centre car parks. In a consultation slipped out announced, Shropshire Council is to withdraw all…
Social mobility in Shropshire is in free fall – we are failing young people
It is not a surprise that the remaining members of the government’s Social Mobility Commission have resigned this weekend. Anger has been growing for months that the government has been…