Oswestry Town Council has posted its draft response to the hillfort housing sites ahead of it’s meeting tonight. As HOOOH explain:
“They have basically voted to go with English Heritage’s view that was made back last August – which is to accept housing on OSW003 and OSW004 (with some observations…) and reject OSW002. Also, like EH, they have said ‘no’ to the car park by the eastern entrance.
However, we feel from feedback from councillors that they have certainly felt the pressure of the campaigning and have begun to wobble. One has stated on Facebook that Oswestry Town Council are opposed to building by the hillfort but voted to support English Heritage recommendations, adding that it is “EH who have withdrawn opposition to 2 of the sites, NOT the town council.”
Sounds a bit like “It’s EH’s fault, not ours, we’d love to have voted not to damage the setting but the big boys (EH and the deep-pocketed litigious developers) made us do it…”
HOOOH are urging as many people as possible to attend the protest and the public Q&A session at the Council’s meeting straight after.
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See what happened here. A glimmer of light?
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27/01/2014 at 08:19
Diana Baur
Speechless.
27/01/2014 at 08:36
heritageaction
I’m sure you’ll recover tonight!
27/01/2014 at 08:52
Grey Heron
Just who do Oswestry Council represent?
27/01/2014 at 09:00
Diana Baur
…..themselves
27/01/2014 at 09:32
Tish Farrell
It’s a sad fact that the people who often stand for councils are the last people who should be there. The do not understand that they are there to represent their community.
27/01/2014 at 09:46
Tish Farrell
Have facebooked and tweeted this.
27/01/2014 at 10:00
Diana Baur
So right Tish – I have likewise tweeted this about 20 times – you can if you add a couple of different words each time so it becomes a new post. Have also emailed EH, but don’t hold out much hope of hearing back from them. Have heard nothing from Owen Patterson or Nick Boles either. But, this is the age of communication, after all…………..
27/01/2014 at 13:31
Saira
Owen Paterson is in Somerset today seeing the floods so I can’t see him coming.
27/01/2014 at 14:23
Diana Baur
He wouldn’t come anyway – he leaves all this kind of thing to “the planners” – he’s said so. And he’s much too busy telling the people in Somerset how THEY need to do something about their flooding for the future. Read George Monbiot’s recent article in the guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/13/flooding-public-spending-britain-europe-policies-homes
to see exactly how Patterson’s policies are actually causing more flooding than is necessary. Farmers encouraged to grub up trees and create more pasture, the tree roots are not there anymore to sop up the water so it cascades down to the roads. That’s a gross simplification of course. But Patterson is a lost cause as far as listening to or acting upon the wishes of the people he serves, whether they be locally or nationally based.