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Horton Cum Studley Horton-cum- March 2019 Studley newsletter Inside this issue: Parish Council News • Otmoor Challenge News • Oxford-Cambridge Expressway • Group Reports and much more New M40 Junction and Expressway Threat – Our Village is NOT Safe! Family fun competition Up to 4 per team (1 adult minimum) 23/03/2019 Adults £5 Children £3 14:00 - 17:00 Hotdogs and drinks on sale Beckley Village Hall Please e-mail to register your team to avoid missing out. If you have any Lego you are willing to donate to our competition, we would be extremely grateful. All profits go towards buying laptops for the school. Can't join in but want to contribute? E-mail to find out how to donate. Thank you from the Friends of Beckley School committee. [email protected] Charity No 1160166 Oxford–Cambridge Expressway On 12th September 2018, the the M40 near Boarstall (details government announced their preferred given below). Additionally, there are corridor for the proposed Expressway substantial threats from the associated and “ruled out construction in the 1 million new homes across the whole area of the Otmoor Nature Reserve”. Arc, 300,000 of which are allocated However, in Parliament on 11th to the whole of Oxfordshire, not just January 2019 Jesse Norman MP, the villages directly affected by the challenged by local MP Layla Moran, proposed Expressway. refused to confirm that Otmoor is completely safe from the Expressway. There are very real threats to our communities and environment that we You may have seen MP John Howell’s must not take lightly or be quiet about. comments in the March Four Parishes News Magazine, which suggests we Proposed Expressway Routes are not at risk and that routes for Highways England are currently the proposed Expressway will not go working to establish a shortlist of across Otmoor. Unfortunately, this is routes by Autumn 2019, for public very misleading. consultation, and will announce their preferred route in Autumn 2020. Firstly, neither “Otmoor” nor Following meetings with Highways “Otmoor Nature Reserve” are defined England, discussions with other areas. Whilst it is very likely that the groups and review of previously RSPB reserve on Otmoor, and some unpublished Corridor Assessment of the nearby SSSIs, will be safe, there Report Appendices, we believe the are no guarantees about the rest of selected route will be Corridor B3, the Otmoor/Bernwood eco-system. coming East of Oxford city. Indeed, Highways England have confirmed twice in writing that the According to the Corridor Report, any route could go outside the boundaries route within Corridor B3 would leave of the preferred corridor, or in another the A34 near Abingdon and come South corridor altogether! of the city to join the M40 near Junction 8A (services). It would then use the M40 Furthermore, we believe one of the northbound for several kilometres and most likely routes for an Expressway leave it again at a new M40 junction would involve a new junction on somewhere between Boarstall and 3 Arncott. From there the expressway Planning process would go North/North-East, eventually Since new planning laws were to run parallel to the line of East-West introduced in 2008, major road rail. This new M40 junction therefore and other large developments are poses a significant risk to: classified as “Nationally Significant • Otmoor and Bernwood, as it could Infrastructure Projects” (NSIPs) and lead to significant “rat run” traffic are examined by an independent using local roads direct to Oxford Inspector appointed by the Planning city, thus splitting the ecosystem. Inspectorate. Compared with the • our local communities, with the Planning Inquiries of yester-year, inevitable increase in traffic, noise/ there is only a limited opportunity for light/air pollution in the area, public input into this process. and increased housing and other development near the new junction. We have asked Highways England about how their work fits with this It remains vitally important to continue NSIPs process. It is crystal clear that raising awareness and demonstrating we can only make a significant impact that we are still willing to fight to on the Expressway proposals before protect our countryside. We have they are formally submitted to the developed new roadside sign designs Planning Inspectorate. After that, it and begun to put them up strategically will be difficult to effect any changes across the area we think is most at at all and impossible to stop the risk. We have contacted other Parish proposed Expressway completely. Councils to seek their support and permission to put up signs and have BBOWT’s legal challenge received unanimous support so far. It In September 2018, BBOWT launched is, therefore, disappointing that 8 of a legal challenge to Highways England our new roadside signs have already on the corridor selection process been destroyed or removed entirely. for not following UK and EU law Removing the signs does not remove by failing to complete a Strategic the threat and could be seen by Environmental Assessment (SEA). planners as public acceptance of the Whilst the initial ruling was against proposed Expressway. We would be BBOWT, on 20th February 2019 their grateful if anyone who has removed a appeal was heard at the High Court, sign could return it to the bus shelter which ruled in favour of BBOWT, that at the bottom of Horton Hill for the Government has a case to answer. collection. So, this important legal challenge to 4 the process followed by Highways Local Plans. The expressway and England can continue. houses would do untold damage to our natural environment, A call to arms – now is the increasing pollution and congestion time to have our voices heard! on our already crowded local roads Consultation on the Oxfordshire • that we expect them to involve Plan to 2050 is now open until 25th themselves and our communities in March. The plan covers the period the Highways England process and from 2031/36 (when the current consultations. Highways England round of Local Plans ends) to 2050. are required to complete public By the end of the Local Plan period consultations as part of the NSIPs Oxfordshire will have 100,000 more process. homes; now is your chance to say how our county should develop Names and contact details can beyond that point. You can read be found below. Thank you in the plan and give feedback here: advance for your efforts! https://oxfordshireplan.inconsult.uk/ consult.ti If you would like one of our new signs to put in your garden or if you would On the 28th January, Oxford City like to get involved or have useful Council voted unanimously against contacts/exciting ideas to contribute, the proposed Ox-Cam Expressway. please contact Olivia Field at olivia_ Oxfordshire County Council now has [email protected]. a similar motion planned for 2nd April. Contact information This is a great opportunity for you District Councillor – David Hughes, to lobby our County Councillor, Dan [email protected] Sames, to vote against the Expressway District Councillor – Simon Holland, and to lobby our District Councillors [email protected] to get a similar motion onto the Cherwell District Council agenda. It District Councillor – Timothy is critical that our District and County Hallchurch, timothy.hallchurch@ Councillors and MP know: cherwell-dc.gov.uk • how strongly we feel about the County Councillor – Dan Sames, proposed Expressway and up to [email protected] 200,000 additional houses over John Howell, and above those in the current [email protected] 5 Basic logo PARISH COUNCIL REPORT This year’s Annual Spring Clean will be from 29th March to 31st March. Bags, gloves, hi-viz jackets, etc. will be available from Kimber House, Horton Hill. Please return bags and equipment to Kimber House once you have finished. Thanks to Barbara Jewell and David Slingo, who have been working on a resilience plan for the village. This will cover what villagers should do in the event of an emergency, such as a prolonged power-cut. The plan will be published on the village website (http://horton-cum-studley.org.uk) and posted on the new noticeboards, which have now been fitted into the bus shelters Unfortunately, the planned visit from Oxfordshire Highways to discuss speeding in the village and traffic-calming measures was cancelled due to snow, but will be rescheduled. We are also working with Oxfordshire Highways to get new deer signage in place. Please remember to log pot holes via the council fix my street website (https://fixmystreet.oxfordshire.gov.uk/). If you need to log an emergency report, please call Oxfordshire Highways Customer Service Centre on 0345 310 1111 – or email [email protected]. The Parish Council meets every second Thursday of the month in the Millennium Village Hall at 7.30pm. Public participation is always welcome, as we value your input to help us to understand village issues. Sarah Foxcroft Contact details for parish councillors are as follows: Sarah Foxcroft, Chair [email protected] Barbara Jewell, Vice Chair [email protected] Colin Badger [email protected] Andrew Payne [email protected] David Slingo [email protected] Alexia Lewis, Parish Clerk [email protected] 6 If you would like to support us through charitable giving, please contact us on the above email. Thank you! The FOBS Committee HORTON-CUM-STUDLEY TENNIS CLUB This is a great club – a great way to meet young families and children – so please support us and come and join the club. HORTON-CUM-STUDLEY TENNIS CLUB We have a Beginning of Season Tennis Tournament on Sunday 28th April – This is a great club - a great way to meet young families and children - so please support us and comewith andan openjoin the BBQ club.
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