Group despairs over protecting U.K. World War memorial to Canadians from development yyc
A group known as Friends of Stag Hill, or FOSH, say their attempts to have the tract of land designated a historic landmark in Guildford, southwest of London, to prevent it from being turned into an apartment complex are being ignored.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“We are running out of options as it feels we are against big money developers plus the local elite who feel they should have their way,” said Watts. Letters preserved in the cathedral’s archives chronicle plans to build the cathedral in the late 1930s that would entail ensuring the land around it was kept as a park.
In early 1943, in a passage from the cathedral’s archives, the bishop of Guildford wrote of his “vision of that part of the hill being acquired by Canadian gifts and remaining as a permanent memorial to Canada’s many associations with us during these war years.” But in a Dec. 23, 2022, letter to FOSH, a spokeswoman for Historic England said the land in question doesn’t meet its criteria for listing.
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