Developers who want to build more than 200 homes in Shrewsbury have lodged amended plans after the original proposals were criticised by residents and wildlife officials.

MP Daniel Kawczynski today vowed to lie in the middle of road to stop construction work starting on Shrewsbury’s £60 million incinerator.

Residents would have to stop recycling to prevent thousands of tonnes of waste being shipped into the county to feed the new £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury, a councillor today claimed.

About 200 jobs will be created by the construction of a controversial £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury, it has been revealed.

A controversial £60 million incinerator for Shrewsbury was today given the go-ahead. Planning inspector John Woolcock has ruled that Shropshire Council’s waste contractor Veolia will be able to build the facility at Battlefield Enterprise Park.

Plans to expand a Tesco store in Shrewsbury could put the town centre’s economic future at risk if the proposals allow the supermarket giant to sell more non-food items, it was warned today.

Shropshire Council will be paying back the costs of an appeal into plans for an incinerator in Shrewsbury for decades to come, the authority has revealed.

More than 1,200 jobs were at risk this afternoon under Government plans to close all regional DVLA offices including one in Shropshire. Eighteen DVLA jobs could be lost in Shrewsbury.

Public health fears about a £60 million waste incinerator on the outskirts of Shrewsbury should play a part in the final decision on whether it is given the go-ahead, a planning inquiry has heard.

A new incinerator on the outskirts of Shrewsbury would cost almost £2 million a year more to run than sending waste to landfill, a planning inquiry heard today.

The building of a new £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury meets council development plans, a hearing has been told.

THOUSANDS OF tonnes of waste would have to be shipped in to Shrewsbury from the West Midlands to ensure a planned £60 million incinerator was operating at full capacity, an inquiry today heard.

Potential investment by Tesco to support town centre traders would ‘pale into insignificance’ compared to the millions of pounds it will take out of the heart of Shrewsbury if plans to expand its Battlefield store go-ahead, a councillor has claimed.

A proposed £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury should not be classified as a renewable energy scheme, a planning inquiry has heard.

A second mass grave and a medieval brick kiln could be lying underneath the Battle of Shrewsbury site, an archaeologist has claimed.

There is not enough evidence to prove that a planned £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury is free from public health risks, the town council has claimed.

Shrewsbury’s ability to recover from the effects of the recession could be damaged by the creation of a new £60 million incinerator in the town, a planning inquiry heard.

One of the key witnesses for the case against building a £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury has been forced to change his evidence at an appeal hearing.

The historic site of the Battle of Shrewsbury would suffer ‘substantial harm’ as a result of the creation of a giant incinerator 200 metres away from it, a planning inquiry has been told.

There is ‘no credible evidence’ to support claims that a new £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury would affect the health of residents living nearby, a planning inquiry has heard.

Business leaders in Shrewsbury have welcomed the prospect of Tesco footing the bill for a new town centre manager or supporting a bid for Business Improvement District status.

Building a £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury would be the ‘the wrong type of development, in the wrong place, at the wrong time’, a planning inquiry today heard.

Residents were this afternoon urged to show a united front and reveal their opposition when proposals for a controversial £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury go before a public inquiry.

Veteran actor Robert Hardy has criticised the proposed £60 million incinerator in Shropshire as a “blasted chimney” and threatened to resign from his role with English Heritage over the burner.

A war-chest of up to £5,000 has been created by town councillors to fight plans to build an incinerator in Shrewsbury.

Letter: Tesco officials are expected to face a grilling over the company’s controversial plans to expand the size of its Shrewsbury store at a public meeting tonight.

Green campaigners in Shrewsbury today announced they will launch a cash appeal to help them fight plans to build a controversial £60 million incinerator in the town.

A legal eagle or an expert planner will be hired to fight an appeal by waste firm Veolia over its controversial proposed £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury.

An elderly woman who died after her static caravan caught fire at a holiday park near Shrewsbury was today named by police.

A public inquiry to decide the fate of a controversial proposed £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury is expected to last 12 days, officials said today.