10,000 more homes needed in Shropshire
Saturday 22nd October 2011, 12:29PM BST.
NEARLY 10,000 HOMES still need to be built in Shropshire’s market towns and large villages over the next 15 years, according to a planning blueprint.
Thousands of homes have already been built in the county over the past six years, but many more are needed to meet Government targets.
A further 4,235 homes need to be built in Shrewsbury by 2026, with 1,761 still to be built in Oswestry, 658 in Market Drayton, 245 in Ludlow and 154 in Bridgnorth.
However, some areas have already met their target such as Highley and Church Stretton.
The total of 9,450 homes required by 2026 is on top of sites that have already been completed, have been allocated for housing or have received planning permission.
These account for a further 7,892 homes.
Between 2006 and 2011 Shrewsbury has seen 1,167 homes built and sites allocated for another 1,098,
Oswestry has had 530 new homes and 209 earmarked.
Anna Jones, senior policy officer for communities and housing at Shropshire Council, said that the overall figure for new homes required over the period 2006 to 2026 was expected to be about 27,500.
She said that about 10,000 of these homes would be built outside the key market towns and big villages in smaller areas including Bayston Hill, Bomere Heath, Clun, Shawbury, Hodnet, Snailbeach, Wentnor and Norbury.
Ms Jones said: “We have taken the town and parish council aspirations where they have indicated what levels of growth that they are reasonably happy to accommodate and the total of 9,450 is the difference between that and what’s already been committed or completed.
“We have said that Shrewsbury will provide 6,500 and the market towns and key centres will accommodate around 40 per cent of residential development and 35 per cent in rural areas outside that,” she added.
A second report identifying preferred site allocations for development in market towns, key centres, and smaller areas, will be presented to members of the council’s cabinet in December.
Where more homes are needed
Albrighton………………….72
Bishop’s Castle………….19
Bridgnorth…………………154
Broseley…………………….24
Cleobury Mortimer…….88
Craven Arms……………..318
Ellesmere…………………..321
Ludlow………………………245
Market Drayton…………..658
Much Wenlock……………16
Oswestry…………………….1,761
Minsterley/Pontesbury…86
Shifnal……………………….415
Shrewsbury………………..4,235
Wem………………………….650
Whitchurch…………………388
Total……………………….9,450
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And they all need to be affordable
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Exactly who is going to buy these homes? Look through the property ads in any newspaper and there are literally thousands of existing properties for sale. They often take years to sell as there is little interest in living in Shropshire due to poor availability of jobs and low wages.
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Do these numbers take into account the thousands of empty houses that exist, as highlighted in recent Shropshire star articles? Probably not, that would be too sensible.
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Doesn’t anyone who builds a house have to pay this stupid new levy though? How do the council expect to encourage people to build these homes if they impose extra charges? I hope more homes also means more jobs, we desperately need more decent jobs in south Shropshire, preferably ones that pay more than £14,000 per annum!
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It’s actually 2 new taxes. The Community Infrastructure Levy and an affordable housing charge. If you are building a 3 bedroomed house it could easily add £25,000 to the cost – hardly an incentive.
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Where did these figures come from? Is there anywhere where we can read this “planning blueprint?”
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Yes you can read it and could have taken part in the process of drawing it up. Have a look at your council’s website or google “shropshire core strategy”.
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The council now have put infrastructure and affordable housing grants onto any planning application so this does little to encourage new dwellings being constructed.
It has become too expensive for developers to go ahead with certain projects due to these payments.
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Not to mention the 2.300 odd they want to build in Newport and the mammoth housing estate that is Lawley in Telford your looking at a hell of alot of housing there
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its too high
it will ruin the countrysdie
homes arent even selling at the moment
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What’s really needed is to prevent new homes being sold immediately to prospective or existing landlords who then go on to charge fortunes in rent.
These type of people are the only ones who have the most immediate means of buying up properties over the heads of those hard working families for whom it takes time to gather up the sort of deposit required for a mortgage.
The Developer/landlord underhand partnership has been the scourge of the househunter for as long as I can remember. Maybe nipping this in the bud first will help rents come down, prices come down and home a lot more heads.
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THATS TOO MUCH IMO
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Regarding the 10,000 houses that need to be built. At Bridgnorth’s local joint committee meeting, we were addressed by Mr. Jake Berriman, Development and Planning officer. He said that houses are needed for people who wished to move into Shropshire, he said immigration was good for the county, he did not state how many houses were required for this purpose. Perhaps we should be aware of this.
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Are we really to belive that if no new houses are built that in 15 years time there will be greater than 30,000 people homeless in Shropshire?
This is social engineering e.g. build new estates in quiet market towns and let the housing associations move all their problem tenents from towns and cities far and wide in. Before anyone attacks my veiw try speaking to residents of Prees, Cleobury and Bridgnorth, it has been done in those towns and crime went up overnight.
I quite fancy living in The Bahamas – anyone think that their council will build a house for me?
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…And presumably crime went down overnight in the ‘towns and cities far and wide’ you mention. So is the plan to keep all the problem tenants in the urban areas in order to protect people in nice country towns and villages? Why are their lives more important?
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…And presumably crime went down overnight in the ‘towns and cities far and wide’ you mention. So is the plan to keep all the problem tenants in the urban areas in order to protect the residents of nice rural towns and villages? Why are their lives more important than those of urban dwellers?
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A couple of suggestions:-
1.There are always objections from adjacent residents to social housing next to them.
However there is less objection if the dwellings are restricted to elderly persons bungalows.
2 Housing Associations should be encouraged to build such properties on the understanding that the tenants vacate larger three and four bedroomed properties for family use
3 This would mean older people would not be rattling around in larger dwellings than they need with a greater cost of heating and maintenance and with larger gardens that they find difficult to manage.
A question with regard to the all the new finance restrictions / payments and that is how will an individual who has paid the money be able to follow an audit trail as to where the money is actually spent and when.
Otherwise if the Council justs sits on the money so that it earns interest for them then this would not meet the aims of the scheme.
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