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Our National Heritage, Old Oswestry Hill Fort, is under threat!

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The Oswestry and District Civic Society objects to this plan.

 

SAMDev Draft Policy Consultation OSW002, OSW003, and OSW004

 

At present the Planning Department of Shropshire Council in their document suggesting areas of land for development (SAMDev) are proposing that there should be three housing estates on sites in the vicinity of Old Oswestry Hill Fort. One would extend to within a hundred yards of the ramparts and all three would destroy the setting of the Fort.

 

Old Oswestry Hill Fort is an ancient monument comparable in importance to the world renowned Maiden Castle in Dorset. We believe that future generations will never forgive us if we allow this proposed crass act of vandalism to proceed. It must be stopped forthwith. We well understand the urgent need for more affordable houses, but this delicate part of our heritage is not the place to build them.

 

The society's objections to these sites being developed are fully supported by English Heritage who have consistently objected to them being considered in the SAMDev process. They state that development on any of the sites will cause irreparable damage to the Hill Fort.

 

Please e-mail your views to planning.policy@shropshire.gov.ukputting SAMDev Draft Policy Consultation in the Subject Box. The three sites in question are numbered OSW002, OSW003, and OSW004.

 

Or you can write to Strategic Planning, Shropshire Council, Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury SY2 6ND.

 

The consultation closes on 28th March 2013.

 

We should be grateful for your support to correct this dreadful mistake

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If any of you out there are interested in supporting Old Oswestry, and helping English heritage by keeping your eyes open to damaging activities on the hillfort and monitoring the flora and fauna there then you can join Old Oswestry Landscape and Archaeology project.  There is a facebook page here , http://www.facebook.com/OldOswestryLandscapeandArchaeologyProject?ref=hl   and we should hear tonight at LJC meeting whether we got any LJC funding!  

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I have sent them an email stating my views on the subject of Old Oswestry Hill Fort it would be a complete desecration of a wonderful historical site how would people feel if the same thing was done to Maiden Castle there would be uproar!

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