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Thame Green Living Plan a Plan to Protect and Improve the Environment of Thame for the Long-Term Health and Vitality of the Town and Its Community Thame Green Living Plan A plan to protect and improve the environment of Thame for the long-term health and vitality of the town and its community. Consultation version July 2018: This is the version of The Green Living Plan approved on 19 June 2018 by Thame Town Council for public consultation. Following consultation a revised version of the Plan will then be produced with more specific proposals. This Green Living Plan was prepared for Thame Town Council on a voluntary basis by the RSA Thame Group. A Green Living Plan for Thame | 1 I What is a Green Living Plan? The Thame Neighbourhood Plan of 2013 enabled The RSA Thame Group acknowledges and thanks those the people of Thame to contribute to and vote on the who have worked with us or contributed to this plan. location of new development sites required by our local Please see Appendix 1 for further details. This version planning authority. The process established Thame as a of the Green Living Plan is now submitted for public front-runner with the new opportunities given by law for consultation and will be revised in light of feedback greater control over local development. received. The revised Green Living Plan will be submitted for final approval to Thame Town Council in a The content of Neighbourhood Plans is, however, process intended to run alongside development of the strictly limited by law. The Thame Neighbourhood Plan proposed new Thame Neighbourhood Plan, for which it is designed to identify suitable sites for development is intended to be a key evidence base. around the town but cannot include many wider considerations of infrastructure or environment that While this plan acknowledges international and national materially affect how people can live pleasant and issues and initiatives, it sets out objectives and options healthy lives there. Likewise, a Neighbourhood Plan for our local community in terms of things we can do cannot cover how our natural environment is affected by here and now that will improve the lives of current and ever-increasing development. future generations. The Thame Neighbourhood Plan does, however, In preparing this Green Living Plan for Thame we are recommend the preparation of a Green Living Plan mindful that Thame is not an island; it not only has for Thame. The absence of any available precedent interactions with its surrounding villages and towns, or defined structure for such a plan has been a major but also lies on the border of the county jurisdictions challenge but has also given the opportunity to think of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. As such it is and plan more holistically for the broader environment influenced, directly or indirectly, by more than one and vitality of the town and its community. planning regime. To make this document manageable we focus on Thame but with regard also to wider The Green Living Plan has been in development for issues. We hope this Green Living Plan for Thame will some time and has passed through several drafts. It encourage other communities to develop similar plans has now reached the point of being offered for public using shared principles adapted to their own local comment and the first stage of what is intended to be full issues. We will welcome closer engagement with such community consultation. parties in the future. RSA Thame Group1 In accepting the political reality that we will have on behalf of Thame Town Council many more homes in our area, this plan is a call June 2018 to act to protect and enhance the quality of life in the things that really matter - the air we breathe, the green spaces we use, the water that is essential to The GLP as a ‘Green-print’ - A request all life, our overall wellbeing, and the natural world This plan has been developed by and is the copyright that surrounds us. We can be highly effective if we of members of the RSA Thame Group acting act together. as honary consultants to Thame Town Council. Although this plan is developed for and targeted at Thame we propose to adapt it as a ‘green-print’ to This Green Living Plan is itself intended to be green and be made available for others for the benefit of their living, suitable for our changing environment. It aims to outline key environmental issues we face, suggest local communities, whether towns, villages or rural. We options available to us and, where appropriate, make would however request that for the GLP format to specific proposals. As times change and we face new retain its force and focus wherever it is used: challenges, the plan should be revisited and adapted as a) the overall shape, scope, thrust and values of this appropriate. It is in three main parts: GLP are retained; and Part 1 sets out the objectives, approach and processes b) the contribution of Thame and the work of the RSA involved. Thame Group (and those who have supported it) in producing this GLP is fairly acknowledged. Part 2 sets out a detailed analysis of the five main focus areas covered. Part 3 follows the approach of the Neighbourhood Plan, initially as a framework, to set out specific recommendations and a Delivery Strategy, intended for regular review and update. A Green Living Plan for Thame | 2 I Contents Part 1 - Approach And Process 4 1 Background 4 2 Why A Green Living Plan for Thame - And Why Does It Matter? 4 3 Green Living Principles and Approach 5-6 4 Impact, Focus and Scope 6 5 Process 6-7 6 Resources, Timescales and Next Steps 7 Part 2 - Detailed Analysis And Focus Areas 7 1 Open Spaces, Green Routes & Our Natural World (Green) 7-14 2 Water and Drainage (Blue) 14-18 3 Air & Environment - Avoiding Pollution (Grey) 18-22 4 Energy & Energy Efficiency (Red) 22-27 5 Waste, Recycling & Waste Avoidance (Brown) 27-29 Part 3 - Delivery Strategy And Action Summary 30 Appendix 1 - RSA and RSA Thame Group 31 Appendix 2 - Summary of Main Green Routes Around Thame 32 Appendix 3 - Thame Map with TNP Development Sites 33 End Notes and References 34-35 Terms and Abbreviations used generally in this Plan Expressway - the proposed Oxford to Cambridge Expressway (see 1.3) GLP - this document, the Green Living Plan for Thame NPCC - Thame Town Council Neighbourhood Plan Continuity Committee NPPF - National Planning Policy Framework OCC - Oxfordshire County Council RSA TG - the RSA Thame Group SODC - South Oxfordshire District Council TNP - Thame Neighbourhood Plan 2013 TTC - Thame Town Council A Green Living Plan for Thame | 3 I Part 1 - 2. Why a Green Living Plan for Thame Approach And Process and Why Does It Matter? 2.1 The objective of the Green Living Plan for Thame The objective is a plan to protect and improve the 1. Background environment of Thame for the long-term health and vitality of the town and its community. 1.1 Thame is an attractive, historic market town set within farming country in South Oxfordshire, recognised 2.2 Our environment - We live in a fast-changing as a highly desirable place to live. The town, however, world, where we leave our mark in many ways, often faces the increasing challenge of retaining its environment without considering the full consequences of our actions. and vitality whilst accommodating substantial additional Part of this is making our contribution to recognising housing and employment. Its location makes it attractive the UK’s legal obligation to reduce the greenhouse for commuting, close to the mainline Haddenham and gases and to address other environmental issues that Thame Parkway (H & T) station and the M40 motorway, threaten our way of life. What does really matter, how 7 miles from the Chiltern Hills, 10 miles from Aylesbury do we balance the well-being of the future against the and 14 miles from Oxford. With a vibrant High Street, challenges of everyday life now, and what can we do it also acts as a focal point for many villages around, here and now? This plan concentrates on 5 key areas in both Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. This places where we can make a real difference. increased strain on its resources and infrastructure. open space, green routes and natural world diversity 1.2 Thame Town Council (TTC), acting through its - the spaces around and between us, and the Neighbourhood Plan Continuity Committee (NPCC) has importance of protecting our natural wildlife; commissioned the RSA Thame Group to act as honorary water - water and clean rivers and avoiding flooding consultants to the Council to prepare and develop after storms; the Green Living Plan for Thame (GLP)2. This is seen as an evolutionary process between the RSA Thame air - the quality of the air that we breathe and the Group and Thame Town Council in which relevant environment around us; organisations, individuals and the community will be energy - energy efficiency and alternatives to using fully engaged. This GLP will be consistent with (but finite energy sources; not limited to) the specific proposals in the TNP. It will be substantially related to the Thame area as defined waste - the amount we throw away, and how we in the TNP but will also, where appropriate, reflect dispose of it. issues affecting towns and villages across the rest of 2.3 Will doing something locally make any difference? Oxfordshire and the county border in Buckinghamshire. - Most people now accept that our climate is changing. 1.3 Thame faces an additional, and potentially Even if there is still debate as to the precise causes and critical, challenge in the shape of the proposed Oxford the likely consequences there is much we can and need to Cambridge Expressway, a possible southern route of to do now to help protect our own well-being and that which could run just to the north of Thame and on via of future generations here in this town and area.
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