Former chapel near Newport to be converted into homes
A former chapel near Newport and its “dilapidated” Sunday school building can be converted into homes, after plans were approved.
The Victorian-built Edgmond Primitive Methodist Chapel, on the village’s Shrewsbury Road, no longer hosts services, and the outbuilding sees “no demand” for hire as a meeting space, planning documents say.
The Telford Methodist Circuit applied to refit the inside of the main building to accommodate two apartments and replace the outbuilding to the south with a new four-bedroom house.
Edgmond Parish Council supported the plan, saying it was “important to preserve the chapel as an important feature” of the village, and Telford & Wrekin Council’s planning department went on to green-light the proposal.
