Prince Charles' lack of popularity discussed by expert

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A school building in Shropshire is set to be transformed into a new housing area after the county council approved plans put forward by Cornovii Developments last week. However, one local in the village of St Martin’s is now trying to prevent the plans from going ahead, the Oswestry & Border Counties Advertizer has revealed.

Keith Evans, a pupil at the Ifton Heath School between 1961 and 1966, has written to the Prince of Wales calling for a royal pardon.

Mr Evans has argued the school site, which closed its gates to students in 2012, should not be demolished and has described it as “one of the finest examples of late Edwardian Dutch architecture in rural England”.

He added: “The Prince has given particular emphasis to heritage in rural communities where examples from the historical line are scarce – this could not be truer for Ifton Heath and St Martin’s.”

Charles has publicly put great importance in rural beauty.

The Prince of Wales often spends time on the other side of the Welsh border in his retreat in Carmarthenshire.

When writing about his Welsh home, called Llwynywermod, Charles said it has been “very important” for him to visit his rural retreat.

“Perhaps Shropshire County Council might like to explain to the heir to the throne their motivation for not converting a fine landmark for residential use, but eradicating a handsome architectural gem from 1915 into some bland array of houses,” Evans added.

The decision taken by the county council was a narrow one.

In their final vote on August 3, Shropshire councillors approved the measures by just 5 votes to 4.

In justifying their proposal to destroy the more than a century-old school building, the private house-building company has said maintaining it would reduce the number of houses and render the site unviable.

The use of the royal pardon may be somewhat associated with British history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

However, there are many modern day examples.

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In 2013, Queen Elizabeth issued a posthumous pardon for Alan Turing, the man who helped decode German naval messaging at Bletchley Park.

But the last time a member of the British Royal Family issued a royal pardon was in 2020 when the Queen granted the royal prerogative of mercy to a convicted murderer, Steve Gallant, for the bravery he showed when he helped apprehend the London Bridge terrorist in 2019.

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