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Old Oswestry Hillfort

Day of reckoning for Old Oswestry Hillfort

A 10-year battle to protect the landscape of one of Britain’s most important Iron Age hillforts from widely opposed development comes to a head later today.

Calls for hillfort housing decision to go to planning committee

Campaigners have escalated public concerns over the controversial bid to build housing in the setting of Old Oswestry hillfort.

Planners are not listening, claim Oswestry hillfort campaigners

Campaigners have slammed the local planning system as they rally against a new bid to build in the setting of Old Oswestry hillfort.

Excavation carried out at Old Oswestry Hillfort

Volunteers from the Oswestry Heritage Gateway have completed a small excavation at the Iron Age hillfort on the northern outskirts of Oswestry.

MP visits Old Oswestry Hillfort to hear residents’ concerns over nearby housing bid

North Shropshire MP Helen Morgan visited Old Oswestry hillfort earlier this week in response to residents’ concerns over plans for a luxury housing estate in the near landscape setting of the Iron Age landmark.

Revised housing plans do nothing to avert terminal damage to Old Oswestry Hillfort, say campaigners

After a two-year silence, developers are mounting a fourth bid to build housing in the landscape setting of one of Britain’s pre-eminent Iron Age hillforts.

Woolly friends keep conservation efforts going on Shropshire hillfort during coronavirus lockdown

The country may have been on lockdown since March, but landscape maintenance at Old Oswestry hillfort has been boosted by the arrival of a new breed of helper.

Outcry as Historic England’s defence folds over major Oswestry housing development

Campaigners are up in arms at news that Historic England has relaxed its concerns over development in the historic landscape of Old Oswestry hillfort.
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