A CAMPAIGN group to stop development around Oswestry’s hillfort has once again called on public support following the submittal of plans for 91 homes.

Plans for the 91 dwellings, plus an electrical substation and open access, were submitted to Shropshire Council on March 11.

The application is the third requesting to build houses at close to hillfort and Hands Off Old Oswestry hillfort (HOOOH) want to defeat it again.

“Exactly eight years since major development by Old Oswestry was first proposed, we are asking for your support once more in opposing the latest bid to build houses in the hillfort’s immediate hinterland landscape,” said spokeswoman Kate Clarke.

“This third planning application is still as large and as damaging to the significance and experience of this outstanding Iron Age hillfort.

“Be warned: this is likely to be our final chance to stop this widely opposed and unnecessary development.

“It will have very tangible, negative and irreversible impacts on a nationally-important heritage landscape – entirely senseless when Oswestry has alternative sites for housing.

“As you stay safe and maximise time at home, we hope you will find time to stay with this fight in protecting this ‘Stonehenge of the Iron Age’.

“These places of calm, escape and connection with our ancestors and nature will be all the more valuable to us when we come through this awful crisis.

“While we are striving to safeguard family and friends in our community from this dangerous virus, let’s make sure that ruinous planning under cover of a national crisis does not usher through development that we have passionately opposed for almost a decade.”

HOOOH’s guidance can be found at www.oldoswestryhillfort.co.uk

Anyone wishing to comment can head to https://pa.shropshire.gov.uk/online-applications