PRESS RELEASE: Hillfort revelation in store for finale of Oswestry heritage festival
A long standing mystery surrounding one of Britain’s most important hillforts is set to be unravelled as Oswestry’s Heritage Open Days festival reaches a close. […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Calls for fairness and transparency as planning application is made for controversial hillfort housing
Campaigners fighting to save one of Europe’s foremost Iron Age landscapes and rare World War I military archaeology from the bulldozer are asking for a […]
Extract from HOOOH (Hands Off Old Oswestry Hillfort) response to Shropshire Council consultation on Local Plan Review ‘Preferred Scale and Distribution of Development’ (2017)
Level of Future Growth Q3. Preferred housing requirement. We do not support the preference for ‘High Growth’ (28,750). The clear preference of almost half (47%) […]
PRESS RELEASE: Up close and personal with pollinators at Oswestry heritage sites
Bees, butterflies and wildlife enthusiasts were out in force for a recent pollinator discovery day held in Oswestry on one of the hottest days of […]
PRESS RELEASE: Art project turns magnifying glass on value of pollinators
The wonder of nature will be turned into a community art installation as part of a wildlife discovery day taking place during the school holidays. […]
PRESS RELEASE: Discover bees and other pollinators at summer holiday event
Wildlife experts will be revealing the fascinating world of bees and other pollinators at a family-friendly discovery day on the Wales/Shropshire border later this month. […]
PRESS RELEASE: Rare finds revealed by hillfort wildlife survey
Looking out over rolling green landscape on the Shropshire/Wales border, the ancient beauty of Old Oswestry hillfort draws visitors from far and wide. Now a […]
Response Letter for objecting to the proposed development in the setting of Old Oswestry Hillfort…
Maintaining objections to proposed development damaging the setting of Old Oswestry hillfort Shropshire Local Plan Review Consultation Preferred Scale and Distribution of Development, October 2017 […]
PRESS RELEASE: Policy changes make housing wrong strategy for hillfort landscape, say campaigners
Recent developments in planning and economic policy have raised fresh questions over a housing bid within the archaeological footprint of one of Britain’s most important […]
PRESS RELEASE: Latest five-year housing figures offer chance of hillfort estate reprieve, say campaigners
New figures showing Shropshire’s 5 year housing land supply in surplus have raised hopes that controversial housing earmarked for a nationally important Iron Age site […]