A major landowner looking to build nearly 3,000 homes on the green belt is threatening to take a council to court over its local plan.
Shropshire Council is being warned it could face legal action over its local plan
The issue centres on whether or not the council needs to find space for another 1,500 homes in the county, along with 30 hectares of business land – on top of the 30,800 homes already set out in the plan, which the council itself says Shropshire needs to build. The contribution of 30 hectares of employment land for the Black Country will come as part of 39 hectares planned for land to the east of Shifnal Industrial Estate, on Upton Lane.
The letter states:"The council’s failure to take any step to consider additional land to accommodate the Black Country’s housing and employment need but, instead, to reduce the housing and employment requirements of Shropshire, raises significant doubts as to whether the council has acted for the purpose of achieving a sound plan.
Responding, the council's planning policy and strategy manager, Eddie West, said the authority would consider the concerns when it receives them. Responding to the Shropshire Star, a spokesman for the Bradford Estates said:"The issue in our letter to the Secretary of State is simply that the council has not addressed the concerns raised by the inspectors in writing back in February, and has not allocated employment and housing sites to meet both its own need and to help meet Black Country needs as required and established at the examination to date.
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