Consultation on draft plans for nearly 9,000 homes around Telford gets green light to open next week
A consultation on plans to create nearly 9,000 new homes in Telford and Wrekin over the next 17 years has been approved.
Telford & Wrekin Council's Labour cabinet signed off on the consultation at its meeting earlier today.
Once approved the plan, which sets out where housing and business developments can be built, would run from 2020 to 2040.
The draft plan going out to consultation includes sites across the entirety of Telford and Wrekin which are being suggested for housing and employment developments.
The plan requires the council to find sites for 8,820 new houses, and 134 hectares of new employment space.
It actually includes ambitions for 20,200 homes up until 2040 – but the council has stressed that sites for the remainder of housing, making up 55 per cent of the overall target, have already been approved, or are under construction.
Consultation will begin next Wednesday, October 25, and will run for eleven weeks, until Friday, January 12.
