Trust me, I’m a developer!
Oswestry is turning into a fantasy world. Eddie Bowen, from Bowen Son and Watson, one of the development agents, has said:
“There is a golden opportunity here. At the moment nobody knows what will happen from a farming point of view, but once this is done that is it. There would be a public open space around it [the hillfort] and that will secure it for the future.”
In case you don’t quite take it in, he is saying that building houses round the hill fort will provide a protective ring within which no-one will build houses! Seasoned observers of developerspeak are saying they haven’t heard such stuff since the days when those masters of the dark art, Tarmac PLC, used to claim that opencast mining round the Thornborough Henges would be good for them!
Not that anyone should be surprised by tricky words at Oswestry. It was there that the Reverend Spooner was educated. They say he once said “You have hissed all my mystery lectures”. Maybe the people of Oswestry should say to Eddie: “We ciss on your ponservation claims….”
The Heritage Journal 
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28/10/2013 at 18:11
Diana Baur
Anyone seen Alice?
28/10/2013 at 23:10
pip davies
what an idiot…….my word……..stop trying to make money, and leave our heritage alone !!!!!!!
29/10/2013 at 07:35
Janet
As a B&B and holiday home owner, I am always promoting our wonderful historic, heritage to guests from around the world. The hill fort is Oswestrys jewel in the crown. It is just stunning and they love it. I have written a potted history for them to read as unfortunately, I don’t think it is promoted enough by the powers that be. It would lose its’ majesty and splendour surrounded by modern buildings rather than the beautiful verdant landscape it stands in now. HANDS OFF you money grubbers!
Is Eddie Bowen delusional as well as greedy? Where the hell does he think our food comes from. We need to preserve our farmland and the farmers. They are the lifeblood and guardians of this green and pleasant land.
29/10/2013 at 08:55
Cymraes
Oh so typical, sadly. I’ve been saying for years, that the town council (which doesn’t exist anymore I know) should promote the site to bring in more tourists and therefore trade for the town. But no… They want to destroy as much of it as they can.