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A SaTH board meeting on Thursday (March 12) also heard of continuing 12 hour-plus waits in accident and emergency as patients wait for beds to be made available.

“We are running with no headroom,” Mr Hobbs said.

The audit found a range of issues including fire compartmentation, storage of oxygen cylinders and other materials on escape routes, issues with training in fire safety, obstruction of fire exits and overcrowding.

The trust board meeting was told on Thursday (March 12) that many of the risks had already been dealt with but replacing damaged fire doors took longer to fix.

Telford & Wrekin Council has released new data showing a major drop in pothole reports as repair teams ramp up their efforts across the borough. With millions of pounds in investment planned and crews fixing more defects than are being reported, find out how the council is tackling winter road damage and what it means for your daily commute.

Planning inspector Rachel Standfield reached a split decision ruling – with deciding against Mr Price’s single storey side extension and front porch. But the inspector allowed him to keep front and rear boundary walls.

Telford councillors will be invited to look at new ‘innovative’ ways of providing housing in the borough.

They could be asked to examine using garage conversions, micro and modular builds, pods and other ‘compact’ dwellings, a report reveals.

The council has told its own planning department how it plans to go about the demolition process, which could start in April, 2026, and last for two months.

Refurbishment had been considered but officials decided that this was not as “cost effective as a new purpose-built and future-proof facility”.

Hadley & Leegomery Parish Council had controversially tried to sell Hadley Cemetery Lodge but it ended up being taken off the property market at the end of last year.

A plot of land is up for auction with a guide of £16,000 and planning already lodged for a modern three-bedroom detached bungalow.

The Trust, which operates the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, has been under the highest level of national oversight since November 2018. The decision to remove the Trust from the Recovery Support Programme (RSP) follows a review by NHS England, which noted “substantial and sustained” improvements across finance, governance, and clinical performance.

Major developers have challenged the legality of a council plan to demand that at least one in every four homes built in Telford are ‘affordable’.

Council officials were this week defending a requirement for major housing developments in urban Telford include a minimum of 25 per cent ‘affordable’ homes, with 35 per cent in Newport and the rural areas of the borough.

Resident Kevan Hendy warned of problems from 10,000 extra car journeys causing problems on the A442 and M54.

Mr Hendy told officials that he had identified a £50 million shortfall in funding for highways over the local plan period to 2040.

“It’s an absolute nonsense,” Mr Hendy told officials as he challenged them to explain.

A councillor told the government inspectors examining the soundness of the local plan that it now seems to be a “done deal.”

Councillor Nigel Dugmore (Conservative, Muxton) said: “It all seems to be a done deal with Bratton and Muxton well advanced.

“What’s the point in having an inspectors report if things are going ahead?”

The 100m cordon was lifted around midnight after the EOD Team established that the items were not explosive. Residents were then able to return home.

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Telford & Wrekin Council is tightening the rules on houses in multiple occupation with new planning regulations that will come into force next year across the borough requiring planning permission for all HMOs, regardless of size.

The former AGA site at Wellington Road was the subject of a controversy in 2024 when the Government warned that the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site could be placed at risk, and might ultimately be delisted if plans went ahead.

Named ‘Bratton Green’ by developer Bloor Homes, the site covers 88.5 hectares of farm land between the A442 and the B5063 north of the Bratton and Shawbirch area.