A parish council in Telford will be writing to MPs in a bid to get environmental watchdogs back to the table over the future of a much-loved brook.

A councillor said that the Environment Agency (EA) has “failed to attend follow-up meetings” after attending one in August and taking two samples from the Hurley Brook in the summer.

Councillor Phil Millward (Labour, Hadley Castle ward) told Hadley and Leegomery Parish Council on Tuesday (December 2) that a meeting with representatives from Severn Trent Water, the EA and Friends of Hurley Brook in August had undertaken to investigate and resolve the “ongoing pollution ” in the brook, in Leegomery.

Councillor Millward said the water company has made some progress by stopping the “discharge of suds and foam and continues to work on ide

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