“Old Oswestry Hillfort” said it all on Facebook:
“But beware! On Thursday 17th December, the Council will be hoping to dumb down another looming error of judgement – one that flies in the face of the public they purport to serve and the express opinion of the country’s most qualified heritage experts.”
In some ways Council Leader Keith Barrow is the gift that keeps on giving for the dismal independent repugnate of Shropshireland. It is not specifically he who wants to damage a nationally important scheduled monument. It is the Council. Now that he has been found guilty of breaching the Council’s code of conduct the public is naturally calling for his resignation but that’s where the danger lies. If he succeeds in hanging on, people will think he’s the main problem. He isn’t. Worse, if (as seems far more likely) the Council throws him out they will seek to imply the stink has departed with him. But it won’t have.
Let the Campaign not focus on Mr Barrow. Let it focus on Shropshire Council (and indeed Heritage England) for supporting the unsupportable.
The Heritage Journal 
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24/11/2015 at 14:23
edevauhe
The Old Oswestry campaign, as HJ rightly says, should and certainly does have its sights on Shropshire Council & Historic England for ‘supporting the unsupportable’ – especially when the prospect of a Judicial Review hangs over OSW004 and SAMDev with it.
24/11/2015 at 14:32
georgenash
It is really sad that a local authority such as Dismal Shropshireland has been tainted with the bush of deviousness and dishonesty. The perpetrators, both [some] Council members and officers can easily hide behind their desks and hope that the stink will go away. Alas, it won’t. Their antics over the past five years or so will linger in the minds of the public for a long time. The relationship and respect that should have been there has now long since gone. This loss of respect should also be extended to that shower Historic England as well. Their dithering and incompetence has partially led to the potential demise of one of England’s most iconic archaeological landscapes. Shame on you all.