Plans for 100 homes at former power station site

The 141-hectare power station site was bought by The Harworth Group in 2018

Plans have been put forward for more than 100 homes as part of the redevelopment of Ironbridge's former power station.

The town's iconic cooling towers were demolished in 2019, four years after it closed.

Barratt David Wilson Homes, which has applied to Shropshire Council for permission, proposed mainly four-bedroom and three-bedroom homes.

The site was bought by the Harworth Group in 2018.

In a planning statement, Barratt David Wilson Homes said the wider development benefits from outline planning permission granted for "the delivery of up to 1,000 dwellings", a retirement village, employment land, retail uses, a school and other facilities.

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Proposals under phase 1A include six affordable dwellings and the 109 overall in the application at this stage range in size from one bedroom to five bedrooms.

The site is near the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site and the Tick Wood and Bethnall Edge site of special scientific interest (SSSI), the document said, and the approach to design "reflects the context of the Site provided by the River Severn and surrounding woodland".

Plans include the provision of new planting, landscape features, open space and new infrastructure connections.