Leading Shropshire councillors will submit their cross-party bid to persuade Whitehall that they can move ahead with approving the county's 'incredibly important' local plan.
Leading Shropshire councillors will submit their cross-party bid to persuade Whitehall that they can move ahead with approving the county's "incredibly important" local plan.The Planning Inspectorate has put a block on approving the Shropshire Local Plan until it can prove how it is helping councils in the Black Country satisfy their 'unmet need' for housing.
The council believes its allocation of land for 30,800 new homes"remains appropriate" and they do not have to allocate any more sites for housing or employment land. Conservative council leader Lezley Picton said an"incredible amount of work" has been put in by a small team of officers to compile a report that was so big that she had not read it all.
The paper prepared for the cabinet says that “new information” providing a “reasoned and justified response” has been prepared on a number of “key points”. It also said that the contribution of 1,500 homes for the Black Country should be specifically allocated, with the council detailing which developments would be making the contribution.
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