Farm plans new entry to take large machines off single monitor lane

Tern Farm, in Longdon Upon Tern, is a 524-acre arable holding farm that advantages from having reservoirs for irrigation on the southern a part of the farm.

Planning agent Ian Decide, of Harrison Decide Ltd, has instructed planners at Telford & Wrekin Council that entry to the farm is at the moment through the single-track Tern Lane.

“Tern Lane is a single monitor highway which passes by means of a residential space and isn’t suited to take massive fashionable agricultural equipment and heavy items car site visitors that are required in reference to the operation of Tern Farm as a big arable farming enterprise,” he stated.

However Tern Farm does have a secondary, unsurfaced entry to the B5062, adjoining to Bridge Cottage.

And now the farm is proposing to make use of that entry as a method to cease having to make use of the slender lane.

So the farm has utilized to the council to assemble a brand new entry from Cotwall Lane (B5062), situated on the Moortown finish of the farm. The highway is a well-used rural route connecting Shrewsbury with Newport.

The candidates have additionally carried out a full report into how animals, birds and vegetation might be affected by the elimination of two hedgerows. The plan is to replant the hedgerows to make method for the brand new entry on the highway.

Site visitors on the B-road has been measured at 52mph and the hedgerows should be eliminated to present a transparent view in each instructions for an ‘industrial farm entrance’.

The candidates say the doorway might be designed to native freeway authority specification.

The plan is out for public session on the Telford & Wrekin Council planning web site with the reference quantity TWC/2025/0012.