Power station site homes plan set to be approvedpublished at 12:36 British Summer Time 8 June 2021
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Plans to build 1,000 homes on the site of the former Ironbridge Power Station are set to be approved.
The redevelopment of the 340-acre site at Buildwas will also include a retirement village, primary school, shops, rail link, business sites and sports, leisure and healthcare facilities, in what will effectively become a new town.
The plans will go before Shropshire Council’s southern planning committee next week and officers say outline planning permission should be granted.
It comes after Telford and Wrekin Council’s planning committee approved the cross-boundary application last month.
If approval is granted, the developer Harworth Group will pay a £16.75m contribution towards local infrastructure, ring-fenced for work directly associated with the development, including £5.1m for a new on-site primary school and £4.4m towards expanding William Brookes School, in Much Wenlock.