By Dan Stacey
A petition launched on Change.org on June 30 – the day the town celebrated its highly-anticipated Eccleshall Festival – has already been signed by over 600 people, while a public meeting at Eccleshall Community Centre is planned for 7pm on Friday, July 11 to discuss the proposals.
Those proposals include more than 500 new homes earmarked for land on the eastern edge of Eccleshall, to the west of Blurtons Lane. Earlier this year representatives from Bloor Homes, Sulis Public Affairs and Pegasus Planning attended a meeting of Eccleshall Parish Council鈥檚 planning committee to give a presentation.
The petition reads: “The town of Eccleshall has grown by 350 homes in the last ten years and now has just over 1,500 homes, with a primary school, secondary feeder school and doctors surgery at capacity, and a high street that lacks car parking and navigating the high street can be difficult.
“Eccleshall is still seen as one of the best market towns in Staffordshire on a regular basis for its charm, individual house design and High Street, amongst other things.