The Black Country will need tens of thousands of homes which it cannot build in its own boundaries, so Shropshire Council is being asked to help.
Protestors outside the Local Plan review hearings in Shrewsbury
The draft Shropshire Local Plan already provides for 1,500 homes in the county to help the Black Country provide for its population. And they council says it is too soon to add any more to that. "It is putting together its evidence base and consulting. A plan has not been submitted for examination or examined," he said.
He said that to add to the 1,500 homes and 30 hectares of business use already in Shropshire's plan to meet Black Country needs would be premature. Mr Richards said the council will assist meeting unmet need in"some amount or another based on existing relationship of connectivity with the Black Country".
But Mr Reed said the Black Country has a need to provide 11,000 out of 76,000 homes outside its area.The Black Country Plan is a planning and regeneration plan for the whole of the Black Country, which is signed up to by the four Black Country Councils.
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