Oxford Living List 2019

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LOCAL WILDIFE SITES IN OXFORD CITY - 2019 This list includes Local Widlife Sites. Please contact TVERC for information on: • site location and boundary • area (ha) • designation date • last survey date • site description • notable and protected habitats and species recorded on site Site Code Site Name District Parish 50E15 Almonds Farm and Burnt Mill Fields Oxford City Marston 40Y05 Binsey Green Oxford City Jericho and Osney 41V14 Canalside Meadow-Oxford Canal Marsh Oxford City Wolvercote 50H04 Long Meadow Oxford City St Mary’s 50H06 Longbridges Nature Park Fen Oxford City Hinksey Park 50M02 Lye Valley and Cowley Marsh Oxford City Cowley Marsh 50I03 Magdalen Meadow Oxford City Holywell 50G03 Meadow next to Iffley Meadows Oxford City Hinksey Park 41V24 Meadow north of Goose Green Oxford City Wolvercote 50I05 Milhamford Field and Quad Oxford City Headington Hill and Northway 50M03 Open Magdalen Oxford City Churchill 40Y03 Osney Mead Oxford City Jericho and Osney 40Z09 Pasture by A34 Thames Bridge-Godstow Bridge Oxford City Wolvercote Meadow 50H05 St Hilda’s College Meadow Oxford City St Mary’s 50E17 Trap Grounds Oxford City St Margret’s 40Z13 West Cowleys (Meadow next to Wolvercote Oxford City Wolvercote SSSI) 40Y04 Willow Walk Meadow Oxford City Jericho and Osney 50Q07 Sandford Brake South Sandford-on-Thames Oxfordshire 50I02 Great Meadow Oxford City Holywell PROPOSED LOCAL WILDLIFE SITES IN OXFORD CITY The following sites are proposed as Local Wildlife Sites: Site Code Site Name Parish 50E11 Bypass Meadows Marston 50C03 Hinksey Lake Hinksey Park 50E16 Line Ditch Summertown 50I06 Marston Brook Meadow Marston 40Z09 Wolvercote Mill Swamp Wolvercote 50G03 Meadow next to Iffley Meadows Proposed Extensions Hinksey Park Ward 50Q07 Sandford Brake North Extension Sandford-on-Thames 41V12 Dukes Meadow Oxford City .

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Comments on the Proposed Boundary Changes to South-East
Comments on the proposed boundary changes to south‐east Oxford As the Chair of Rose Hill and Iffley Low Carbon Community Group, I would argue that the proposed changes make little sense and that the existing ward boundaries should be retained, with the leeway for change mentioned below. Councillors should represent communities, not raw numbers. The natural boundaries of our ward (Rose Hill and Iffley) are the river, ring‐road, Rose Hill/Henley Avenue and Donnington Recreation Ground ‐ or Donnington Bridge Road if a greater number of residents is needed. If a lower number of residents is needed, the area around Westbury Crescent could be moved into Cowley ward as most people regard it as Cowley. We should keep all the houses on both sides of Rose Hill (the road) as it wouldn't make sense to live on Rose Hill and not in it! Our group would be badly affected by the proposed boundary change as we based our choice of name on the fact that they constitute one ward. We have active members in both Rose Hill and Iffley and this helps to bring the two communities together. It has always been helpful to ask known Councillors to represent us on key issues and to build a working relationship with them. It would be very complicated if we had to refer to multiple Councillors in a number of different communities. Rose Hill and Iffley share common resources ‐ the river, the church, Iffley Meadows, the No 3 bus into the town centre, the allotments, the recreation ground and now Rose Hill Community Centre, which provides facilities such as the gym to the whole community.
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Quality As a Space to Spend Time Proximity and Quality of Alternatives Active Travel Networks Heritage Concluaiona Site No. Site
Quality as a space to spend Proximity and quality of Active travel networks Heritage Concluaiona time alternatives GI network (More than 1 of: Activities for different ages/interests Where do spaces currently good level of public use/value, Within such as suitability for informal sports and play/ provide key walking/cycling links? Biodiversity, cta, sports, Public Access Visual interest such as variety and colour Number of other facilities Which sites do or Agricultural Active Travel Networks curtilage/a Historic Local Landscape value variety of routes/ walking routes Level of anti-social behaviour (Public rights of way SSS Conservation Ancient OC Flood Zone In view allotments, significant visual Individual GI Site No. Site Name (Unrestricted, Description of planting, surface textures, mix of green Level of use within a certain distance that could best provide Land SAC LNR LWS (Directly adjacent or djoining In CA? park/garde Heritage Landscape Type of open space in Local Value Further Details/ Sensitivity to Change Summary Opportunities /presence, quality and usage of play and perceptions of safety National Cycle Network I Target Areas Woodlands WS (Worst) cone? interest or townscape protections Limited, Restricted) and blue assets, presence of public art perform the same function alternatives, if any Classification containing a network) listed n Assets this area equipment/ Important local connections importance, significant area of building? presence of interactive public art within Oxford) high flood risk (flood zone 3)) Below ground Above ground archaeology archaeology Areas of current and former farmland surrounded by major roads and edge of city developments, such as hotels, garages and Yes - contains two cycle Various areas of National Cycle Routes 5 and 51 Loss of vegetation to development and Northern Gateway a park and ride.
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Osney Island Residents' Association Newsletter
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A brief history of Port Meadow and Wolvercote Common and Picksey Mead, and why their plant communities changed over the last 90 years A. W McDonald Summary A multidisciplinary approach to landscape history enabled the examination of botanical, hydrological and agricultural data spanning some 4,000 years. The results showed Bronze Age humans affecting the vegetation by pasturing cattle on the floodplain extending from Yarnton to Oxford. In the Iron Age pastoralists were over-grazing Port Meadow and, between the sixth and ninth centuries, part of the floodplain was set aside for a hay crop whilst the aftermath or second grass crop continued to be shared as pasture. By Domesday floodplain meads were the most expensive land recorded in this survey and Port Meadow was established as common land belonging to Oxford. Having discussed the soil and water conditions on the floodplain and its potential effect on the plant communities, the management history of Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common is followed by that of Picksey Mead. Finally, the plant communities are discussed. Those established in 1981/2 are compared with data sets for the early 1920s and for 1996-2006. Changes in the species composition between sites are due to different management regimes and those over time and within sites are attributed to changes in the water-table. Introduction The Oxford grassland comprises common pasture and mead situated on alluvium over limestone gravel. It is unusual for its four thousand years of management history and evidence for the effect this has had on the vegetation. Sited in the upper Thames valley, within three miles of Oxford City centre, Port Meadow (325 acres/132 ha) and Wolvercote Common (75 acres/30.4 ha) (Figure 1 and Figure 2) are known locally as the Meadow, even though they are pasture1.
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