By Cahal Milmo for The Independent, 5 October 2015
It is the sort of dilemma that the Bard himself might have relished. Whether to sell part of the family seat to protect what remains of it or refuse and risk future damage to a treasured corner of “this other Eden”.
Campaigners have expressed disappointment at a decision by the charity in charge of key sites in William Shakespeare’s hometown of Stratford-on-Avon to sell a parcel of land close to the home of the playwright’s wife, Anne Hathaway, to a developer.
A decision this weekend by trustees of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to sell some three acres of land close to the Tudor cottage will allow the building of a link road for a new development of 800 homes to the west of the hamlet of Shottery.
The trust, along with residents’ groups, had initially been strongly opposed to the proposals, which place the road within 200m of the thatched cottage on the site where a teenaged Shakespeare is thought to have wooed his older bride before they married in 1582.
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