Shropshire Councillor for Ludlow North
Shropshire Councillor for Ludlow North
Plans have been submitted for a petrol station on the junction of Bromfield Road and Coronation Avenue. It will have a convenience store and a coffee shop. I am opposing this development (14/00563/FUL) on the grounds of flood risk and…
Our Special Focus for August 2013 looks at the growing crisis in local services. Click here to read it. Ludlow’s new hospital is in doubt. There is a budget shortfall of more than £1 million and the project may be…
Planning matters can be a little on the dull side, but bear with me a moment on this one. It really matters that Shropshire has gone from being one the best planned counties in the country to one of the…
Sir Andrew Motion, the president of the Campaign to Protect Rural England caused something of stir last weekend by launching a salvo against second home owners in the Times. There were about 1,100 second holiday homes in Shropshire in 2001.…
Update: Application withdrawn on 17 January 2013 There are almost unprecedented plans to plough out 7 miles of hedgerow near Chirbury. If proposals like this are nodded through, large areas of Shropshire could soon become barren wastelands, denuded of beauty…