Act now on railway's heritage

Unless Cambrian Railways Group and all those interested in Oswestry's railway heritage get their act together, housing and flats will be built all along the line behind the Red Fence on Gobowen Road.

And 10 flats and a medical centre will be built within the Cambrian Works building. There will be no foothold left for there ever to be a major tourist and heritage centre encompassing this historic site.

Let's face it, the location of the medical centre is more about a business proposition than providing medical care to the community.

It has always been about profit to put it in or around the railway land. It is not a medical centre alone.

Housing and flats are the major part of the development. Many Oswestrians have supported development under the misapprehension that the development is going to be a medical facility alone, which can expand. Not so.

It seems irresponsible for the planners to permit so many flats and so many dwellings in such a congested, already over-developed area.

There is already a doctor's surgery at the Caxton site in Oswald road. Patients and visitors already have difficulty joining the heavy traffic, so imagine if all this proposed development goes ahead and the railway land is eventually developed too.

Oswestrians will be in danger of losing life and limb, so the medical centre could be very busy, but it seems that's OK and it's OK for Oswestry to lose more of its railway heritage as long as some are laughing all the way to the bank.

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