Campaigners have escalated public concerns over the controversial bid to build housing in the setting of Old Oswestry Hillfort by calling in the planning application for committee determination, reports Shropshire Live.
image: for illustration – Old Oswestry Hillfort by Oswestry Borderland Tourism, CC BY-SA 2.0
… we believe it would be unfair and undemocratic for the decision to be delegated…
Shropshire Live writes:
Campaign group Hands Off Old Oswestry Hillfort (HOOOH) has submitted paperwork asking for the widely opposed scheme for 83 houses to be decided by Shropshire Council’s North Planning Committee and not delegated to planning officers.
North Shropshire MP Helen Morgan has backed the move, having already submitted objections to the planning application…
…. HOOOH has asked Oswestry Town Council to initiate a call-in as a local council stakeholder that has objected to the proposals. Campaigners have also written to Shropshire councillors, Chris Schofield and John Price, requesting their assistance with a call-in as the relevant council members for Oswestry….
In their correspondence, HOOOH wrote: “… Given the significant public interest in this planning bid, we believe it would be unfair and undemocratic for the decision to be delegated to planning officers…”
