Council tells local plan inspectors it cannot meet deadline to respond over 'serious concerns'
A council has told inspectors it cannot meet their deadline to respond to concerns about the soundness of the county's local plan.
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Shropshire Council's local plan process was thrown into chaos earlier this month when inspectors revealed major concerns over the vital proposal.
The local plan is one of the council's most important policies and sets out locations across the authority's area where housing and commercial developments are recommended to take place up until 2038.
The proposed plan is made up of a combined 31,300 homes to be built over that timeframe, along with 320 hectares of employment land.
In their latest letter the inspectors gave the council until the end of January to explain how it can fix the issues they have highlighted, within six months.
If the council says it can't fix the issues the inspectors will ask the authority to withdraw the proposal.
