A protest will be held after a hedgerow was covered in a net by a developer.
Councillor Andy Boddington said the protest will be held at Rocks Green in Ludlow on Sunday at 11am.
He said he has spoken to Pickstock Homes about the netting on the hedge but it has not been removed.
Nationwide people have been complaining about the practice, which developers have been doing to keep wildlife away from hedges and trees.
Councillor Boddington said: “A public protest will be held at Rocks Green against the netting of hedges ahead of housing development.
“After I spoke to Pickstock Homes a couple of weeks ago, the hedge netting at Rocks Green was reinstalled to prevent access by birds and small mammals.
“This failed immediately with one animal, probably a hedgehog, burrowing out.
“The practice of netting is legal but controversial. More than 210,000 people have signed a petition calling for netting of trees and hedges to be outlawed.
“The Facebook group Nesting not Netting! has more than 7,000 members. The controversy will be discussed by MPs, though a date hasn’t yet been set because of the confuddle over Brexit.
“Residents have contacted Shirehall about Rocks Green.”
Councillor Boddington said he had also written to Ludlow MP Philip Dunne about the issue.
Last month, Shropshire Wildlife Trust described netting as “abhorrent.”
And a Shropshire Council spokesman said: “Shropshire Council has been receiving phone calls from residents.
“Where planning applications are involved we have been passing on the reports to the developers.
“Normally we don’t put a condition on planning decisions regarding nesting birds as they have legal protection under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and, as such, birds are protected whether or not the planning process is involved.
“But, we do raise awareness of the legal protection of nesting birds by putting information on the planning decision notice.
“The responsibility therefore rests with the persons authorising and installing the netting, and their ecological advisers, to ensure that an offence is not committed under wildlife legislation.
“We would always encourage developers to plan their work to avoid the bird nesting season and hence prevent the need to use other methods such as netting vegetation.”
Pickstock Homes has been asked to comment.
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