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Thanks for the wonderful aerial photos posted on Community Online!
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....and listen to all about the hillfort on Radio 4 next Tuesday (17th Feb)
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The Agenda for the Feb meeting has been posted on SC's website, but it does not include this solar farm.
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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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You are entitled to speak too; as long as you register beforehand.
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Still no agenda for the next planning meeting on 17th February , sono idea what is on it. http://shropshire.gov.uk/committee-services/ieListMeetings.aspx?CommitteeId=128
(worth keeping your eyes on this link,)
So,is anyone going to ask to speak if it comes up for this next meeting?
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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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I am not sure what Camra and the Parish Council intend to do! No-one was sure who still owned the pub at the meeting on Monday, but everyone wanted to see the building maintained rather than pulled down for housing development.
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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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Shropshire Star mention this today. http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2015/01/12/parish-council-in-fight-to-save-shropshire-pub
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Well so did I, but it doesn't look like that has gone through and there is time for the village to register a community bid with the council which then gives the village more time to get a plan and find the money. I am interested to hear what will be said at the parish council meeting on Monday.
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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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Old Oswestry features in a news article in the Times. https://www.facebook.com/OldOswestryHillfort/photos/a.542106495826074.1073741827.542104259159631/755218354514886/?type=1&theater
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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)
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Nice article about the protest camp in Duddleston is in the Shropshire Star. They are hunkering down for the winter, even have a wood burner to keep warm. http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2014/11/22/anti-drilling-campaigners-get-ready-for-winter-at-shropshire-camp/border-23-cam-6/
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Well obviously the applicant is rushing this through because the silly unsustainable government grants which make solar farms such an attractive windfall for landowners will stop early next year and time is running out on them.
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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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Sorry, I just clicked on Comments and got in. The Documents are not working for other sites I've had a look at (or not) tonight.
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I've just got in so it must have been a temp. glitch.
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Well it must have been an interesting planning meeting at Shirehall today. The Councillors wanted to reject the appltcation for a test drill, but instead it has been postponed because the officers and the legal people stepped in. I wonder what that is about? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-29762509
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Maybe more gov. money should be spent in developing British innovations such as the one mentioned by Lee Barnfield further up this thread. THAT would be a local innovation and its develpment support local workers etc. and also be good for the environment.
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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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Planning Officers recommend granting the planning application for test drilling at Duddleston ahead of the Planning Committee meeting next week. Lots of people objected!
Hillfort Hug
in Gobowen Local Chat
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..or a very long selfie stick.