Our representative on Shropshire Council is Brendan Mallon, who represents Tern Division. He often attends Parish Council meetings and is always happy to take questions or suggestions on local matters. Councillor Mallon also presents a report to the Parish Council and the contents of the latest one can be found below (please note views expressed in Councillor Mallon's report are not necessarily those of the Parish Council):

County Councillor’s Report to Upton Magna Parish Council – 10th September 2026

I hope you have all had an enjoyable summer and I would like to thank those of you who took the time to attend the Walk the Wards event with Council Chief Executive Tanya Miles and advocated so effectively for Upton Magna.  I am pleased to inform you that Tanya has followed up on the points raised at the event and promised to investigate the issues raised, including:

• Investigate the exorbitant number and duration of extensions to the Upton Magna BESS consultation period
• Planning Committee training - what training do we provide members and officers to deal with complex applications?
• Road repairs - residents want to understand the criteria of prioritisation on road repairs
• Pothole repairs - does the service check the quality of work?
• Road sweeping
• Haughmond Hill TPO – timescale for adding double yellow lines along the road outside the Haughmond Hill official car park.

It is a really good sign that Tanya has acknowledged these ongoing issues and is tasking her staff to see what can be done about each of them.  I have been promised an update on these follow-up actions by the end of this week.

Brendan Mallon

Councillor for Tern