Help Us Save the Oxford Green Belt
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What are the alternatives? What can you do? Build more houses in the City – there is room, if Don’t let wealthy landowners take over your HELP US only the City Council stopped using spare land for commercial use. Green Belt and your local countryside, at the expense of the health and well-being of your SAVE THE Build at a higher density – if houses were built at a family and friends. higher density, less land would be needed. Find more sustainable locations – the proposed OXFORD development lies in South Oxfordshire; South OBJECT Oxfordshire District Council objects to the urban Sign up to CPRE Oxfordshire’s e-newsletter and extension and is looking for more sustainable we’ll keep you posted on when the application GREEN BELT locations outside the Green Belt. comes forward and how to object: Target development outside of Oxfordshire – where our local countryside & houses are cheaper and jobs are scarce. www.cpreoxon.org.uk/join-us Meanwhile, why not email the President of our historic City Magdalen College, Professor Sir David Clary, to CPRE Oxfordshire is the local branch of the tell him your views: Horspath › [email protected] Campaign to Protect ss pa By Rural England, but a fully Eastern independent charity relying entirely on local Join our campaign to Blackbird Leys donations and support. We fight for the future of Save the Oxford Green Belt Littlemore Oxfordshire’s countryside, to ensure it thrives for generations to come. Find out more at: www.cpreoxon.org.uk Donate via JustGiving at: Oxford Science Kassam tinyurl.com/SavetheOxfordGreenBelt Park Stadium CPRE Oxfordshire, First Floor, 20 High Street, Grenoble RoadGarsington › Watlington, Oxfordshire OX49 5PY Magdalen College and its partners T: 01491 612079 want to build a huge urban E: [email protected] Sandford extension on your doorstep A4074 – is this what you want? www.cpreoxon.org.uk @CPREOxfordshire GREEN BELT www.facebook.com/CPREOxfordshire The Baldons The Oxford Green Belt needs your help now CPRE Oxfordshire is registered in England as Charity No.1093081 and Company No. 4443278. www.cpreoxon.org.uk Save your local countryside from Overbeing 17,000 concreted houses proposed over! for Oxford Green Belt in nextWhy 14 years should you object? Let us know what you think! Key to sites in the Oxford Green Belt with the WEST 1,650 houses number of houses,Loss the area in ofhectares countryside and on your doorstep – where will A4260 CHERWELL OXFORDSHIRE 2 A34 land ownership Kidlington DISTRICT you and your family exercise, walk the dog and get DISTRICT Cherwell “Is building an urban 550 houses 1 Land north of Oxford, 2,200 houses (88.11ha) GREEN BELT Christ Church, Exeter College, Merton College and Oxford A4095 3 University Press fresh air? 2 Land at Begbroke, 1,650 houses (91.96ha) 2,200 houses Oxford University, Magdalen College, Vanburgh Unit Trust and Mr extension in the Green Belt Davies 1 3 South East of Kidlington,Traffic 550 houses (33.66ha) congestion – 3,000 extra houses south of the Phillip King Homes Trust A40 4 Oxford City City will mean thousands more people trying to get south of Oxford a bad idea?” 2,200 houses 4 St Frideswide Farm, 150 houses (3.95ha) 150 houses Oxford City Council 7 5 Land opposite Redbridgedown P&R, 180 houses (3.64ha)the Cowley Road or on to the busy A4074 each 550 houses Oxford City Council 750 houses South Oxfordshire 8 OXFORD 6 Land south east of Grenobleday. Road, 3,500 houses (208ha) 10 Magdalen College, Oxford City Council and Thames Water Botley CITY Yes No Undecided 2,000 houses 7 Land at Wick Farm, 2,200 houses (289.17ha) 550 houses 550 houses 180 houses Christ Church and Wick Farm Ltd 8 Land adjacent to ThornhillAir P&R, 550 pollution houses (33.55ha) – according to the World Health 9 13 12 5 Shotover Estate A40 9 Land south east of Oxford, at Garsington, 2,000 houses (146.39ha) Brasenose College and OxfordOrganisation City Council Oxford is already one of the most polluted Comment: 10 Land at Wheatley, 750 houses (21.32 ha) Kennington Oxford Brookes University 6 cities in the UK, with the Cowley Centre a ‘hot spot’. A415 1,100 houses A329 Vale of the White Horse 800 houses 11 Land at north Abingdon (near Radley College), 1,100 houses 11 16 3,500 houses (57.81ha) How will the health issues be considered? 200 houses SOUTH Multiple ownership 14 12 Land at Botley, Cumnor, 550 houses (51.89ha) 15 270 houses OXFORDSHIRE Multiple ownership 13 Land at Cumnor, 550 houses (39.15ha) A420 17 DISTRICT Multiple ownership Housing need – only some of the new houses will be Abingdon 14 Land north of Abingdon, 800 houses (33.20ha) 240 houses Berinsfield Multiple ownership, including‘affordable’ Radley College – but the developers won’t come clean VALE OF WHITE 15 Land north west of Abingdon, 200 houses (32.39ha) Catesby Estates Ltd and Green & Co HORSE 16 South Kennington, 270 onhouses - (31.08ha)how many, whether any will be social housing or DISTRICT Mr Charles Dockar-Drysedale 17 North West Radley, 240 houses - (13.84ha) A338 A4074 Radley College and Kibswellpermanently Homes affordable, or whether they just mean A34 Total: 17,440 houses November 2016 20% off the market value. The truth is this housing will Magdalen College and its partners are trying to build not meet the needs of local families, but is likely to be Didcot Wallingford 3,000 plus houses out over the Oxford Green Belt south bought by commuters from London and elsewhere. Please return to: of the City. (www.oxfordsciencevillage.com) Work space – the development would extend the The developers are calling it a ‘Science Village’ but this Science Park – but the existing Science Park isn’t close CPRE Oxfordshire, First Floor, 20 High Street, is just advertising speak for ‘a huge urban extension’. to being full. Watlington, Oxfordshire OX49 5PY The developers claim they will deliver some affordable You won’t benefit – but private wealthy landowner, If you would like to give us your contact details houses, but they are unlikely to be affordable to Magdalen College (with £180 million in its coffers) is so that we can stay in touch please do so here many local people. This isn’t about providing low-cost set to make £650 million profit from using its land for or email us at: [email protected]: housing, but about making money. development. And it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Brasenose College Please help us to protect the Green Belt for your Name: ....................................................................... would like to follow suit by building another 2,000 children and grandchildren. houses on adjacent land to the east. Address: .................................................................... If successful, these applications could set the precedent for further urban extensions to the north ................................................................................... of the City, obliterating the ‘Kidlington gap’, and elsewhere around the Green Belt including Abingdon ................................................................................... and Wicks Farm. Tel: ............................................................................. Once undermined in this way, there will be little to stand in the way of the complete dismantling of the Email: ........................................................................ Oxford Green Belt, leading to urban sprawl and the loss of open countryside all around our historic City. ✂ Please be assured we will never sell or share your contact details with anyone outside CPRE..