CAMPAIGNERS hope to list Didcot’s iconic cooling towers in a last-ditch bid to protect them from demolition.
Campaign group Save Heritage And Money said Didcot Power Station’s towers were the town’s “dreaming spires”.
Didcot A Power Station was switched off for good nearly two weeks ago after almost 43 years of generating power.
Plant owners RWE npower yesterday began the nine-month decommissioning process, which will lead to the tower’s demolition.
SHAM chairman Sam Turret said: “The cooling towers are our dreaming spires.
“They could easily be turned into flats or even just left as an art piece – a bit like the Angel of the North.”
The group has applied to English Heritage to get the cooling towers Grade II* listed status – the same as Oxford Town Hall.
English Heritage and RWE npower did not comment on the tall tale.
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