Blueprint to be published on future housing and business sites in Shropshire
Plans were today set to be published on the future development of housing and business land throughout Shropshire over the next 20 years.
The latest draft of Shropshire Council's Local Plan Review will include any amendments to policies and site allocations made by planning officers to the original document.
It will then go before Shropshire Council's cabinet for approval on December 7.
The draft local plan sets out locations for 30,800 homes in towns and villages across the county, as well as various employment sites, to be built up until 2038.
Since the proposals were confirmed there has been an outcry over plans for Bridgnorth in particular, with council officers switching a recommendation for a garden village on green belt land at Stanmore, to one on a brown field site at Tasley instead.
The Tasley proposal emerged from Taylor Wimpey and includes 1,050 homes and a business site of at least 16 hectares on agricultural land south of the A458 and west of the B4364 Ludlow Road.
There has also been concern over sites at Shifnal, Church Stretton, Much Wenlock, Shrewsbury, Whitchurch and Oswestry.
The controversial proposals have been the centre of discussions between councils, campaign groups, residents and interested parties.
More than 2,000 organisations and individuals took part in the eight-week consultation on the plan between August and September this year, as well as 55 parish and town councils.
Planning officers at Shropshire Council have since been considering responses and looking to make changes where they feel appropriate.
With the updated version being published today following the latest stage of consultation, it will now go before Shropshire Council's cabinet for approval on December 7.
The document will then go out for consultation again for seven weeks until the beginning of February next year. Final amendments to the plan can then be made by planning officers in March before it goes before the planning inspectorate in April 2021.
Shropshire Council predicts, if approved, work to implement the plan will begin in April/May of 2022.
