'I would urge anyone concerned about this proposed development to let the council have the benefit of their views' - Your Letters: August 28
PICTURE FROM THE ARCHIVE: Protesters objecting to the M54 in a picture believed to be around February 1972. The captions was: 'Three year old Nigel Wellesbury makes sure Staffordshire County Councillors get the message. He was the youngest protester against the M54 northern route.
CONCERN OVER HOTEL'S FUTURE
Bridgnorth residents may not be aware that a 'change of use' planning application has been submitted to Shropshire Council to convert Whitburn Grange Hotel, at the corner of Pound Street (Squirrel Bank) and Salop Street, into 'a house of multiple occupation' comprising 15 individual units of accommodation.
If granted this would replace the existing planning permission which is for the hotel and its outbuildings to be converted 'to form six apartments'.
Whilst on the one hand there is no proof that a house of multiple occupation would necessarily be filled with migrants, on the other hand there is absolutely no guarantee that the accommodation would instead be used to house homeless members of the indigenous population.
As things stand the 'change of use' application is, according to the Shropshire Council website, 'pending consideration'.
I would urge anyone concerned about this proposed development to let Shropshire Council have the benefit of their views.
Christopher Gill, Bridgnorth
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