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    This Saturday why not celebrate Valentine's day by joining lots of us on Old Oswestry to give it a hug?  1 pm.  park over in Gatacre because we are expecting lots of people.  

    This is linked to a #HugyourHeritage campaign, and people are posting selfies of themselves with their favorite heritage on Twitter. Here's one of Francis Prior off Time Team.  https://www.facebook.com/OldOswestryHillfort/photos/a.542106495826074.1073741827.542104259159631/773355566034498/?type=1&theater

     

    This is all part of celebrating this wonderful Iron Age monument which we are lucky enough to have in our area, hoping that the planned housing developments will not be part of the SamDev Plans and that the planning inspector will listen to all the experts who have spoken out against it.  

     

     

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    The EH scheduling statement (link above) is the best source of information.  Also have a look here

     http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MSA1213&resourceID=1015

    It was part of a medieval landscape and guarded the river Ceiriog below, and the old track along Oaklands Rd (ish) and up the Oaklands Drive, still marked by old oaks, was a route from Roman times along the top of the slope to the river crossing and later bridge at Pontfaen, then up the sunken lane to the back of Chirk Castle.  (Railway sliced it) , There is no sign of a bailey, but when the field alongside  has been ploughed I have a look for stuff;never found anything older than Victorian though.  

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    Well we'd have to discuss this, see the post of the new community pub opened in Neenton above.  Some become a total hub for the village, with local meetings taking place there, or with a shop, or post office, but we already have these in Weston Rhyn.  Have you seen the 'Mens Shed' movement started in Australia,which provide all sorts of activities for men in an enjoyable atmosphere?  That's one idea we could look at.  There is a lot of space in the Lodge. The pub was actually very well used and busy,  but the brewery decided to get rid, so there is a market there to continue to run it as a pub but as a social enterprise rather than any profits going into a brewery chain. Real Ale would be good too.  What do you think Neo? 

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    The Lodge has closed, leaving no pub at the top end of Weston Rhyn.  It ran the youth football team, and was a well loved meeting place for many people over the years.  So, are we going to sit back and moan?  In other villages pubs are bought by village partnerships and run as community buildings, why not here?

     

    Have a look at what happened in Neenton in South Shropshire in this piece from Midlands Today. And lets discuss how we could all make something happen in Weston Rhyn.  

     

    https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153004517214761&fref=nf

     

    On Monday the Parish Council have 'the Lodge Inn, Community Right to Bid Nomination: Asset of Community Value'  on the Agenda,to be discussed.

     

     Neenton is a tiny village and they could do it, why not here?

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    The Sam Dev enquiry is drawing to a close and we await the report from the Inspector in February about whether this Development plan for Shropshire stand up as a legal plan.  One criticism in this final round is about how Shrops Council used the wishes of the Parish Councils to determine the level of development planned for villages,  and critics used the determination of Weston Rhyn Parish as ' a cluster' as an example of how the total plan was flawed, because they believed that far greater levels of development could be sustained here than were envisaged by the label 'cluster' and it shouldn't have been left to Parish Councils to decide.  

    If this all sounds like gobbledegoop to you,then read on here   http://www.oswestryi.com/?p=2466#more-2466    and follow the links to descend further into the depths of planning speak. 

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    The Public Hearing into the inclusion of land close to Old Oswestry Hillfort is today.  Many people in the 3 Parishes have been involved in the campaign to save the Hillfort (In Selattyn and Gobowen Parish) and have raised the issue around the world magnificently.  Have a look at the calibre of these famous archaeologists who have signed an open letter in support today.   We started small but look where it got us in terms of support.  I hope the planning inspector can see the 'bigger picture' too.   ( Campaign Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/OldOswestryHillfort) 

     

     https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/oswestry-hill-fort-public-hearing-opens-a-powerful-open-letter-by-senior-academics-in-british-archaeology-has-been-published/

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    So who else who reads Community Online posts will be at the Big Local event?  I'm taking a display about 'Aqueducks' and the Canal World Heritage Site concentrating on the Chirk Bank part, with old photos etc, and information about how you can get involved; and also some stuff about the Incredible Edible project for which I need some volunteers.  We are also looking for some interest from people in developing a group to get involved with the canal outside the World Heritage centre, which crosses the Big Local area much of it being the boundary between Gobowen and St Martins.  It would be really nice to see some of the same things happening there as have done in Chirk Bank, with community involved in improving the area and welcoming new visitors.  

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    They are also rushing it through to get planning sorted before Defra take away the solar farm subsidies from green field sites on farms.  This is due to happen in April 2015, so if they hurry they can get their grant before then!  Defra are removing the subsidy because of widescale use of good farming land at a time when there are warnings that we are running short of land to grow food.  http://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1317885/farming-subsidies-cut-stop-spread-solar-panels-says-defra

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