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Keep Green Belt Autumn 2015 OXFORDSHIRE www.cpreoxon.org.uk VOICE Plan for need, not greed Mapping Oxfordshire Oxfordshire’s footpaths Future of Oxfordshire should Celebrating 50 years of Here today, gone be in all our hands Alun Jones’ drawings tomorrow? OXFORDSHIRE Chairman’s voice VOICE When the over and over again how the system is Autumn 2015 first draft of working in practise and yet nothing is the National done to remedy the problems. There Features Planning appears to be cynical acceptance that 3 Port Meadow & Northern Framework anything goes - in the interests of Gateway latest (NPPF) was economic development. 4 Oxfordshire Local Plan replaced in round-up 2012 some of We have all seen the way in which us said ‘we thought we could work developers, abetted by the Planning 5 Survey reveals public want to with it’. While it still had an emphasis Inspectorate, have managed to take keep Green Belt on economic development it did advantage of the fact that districts 6 Plan for need, not greed say that there was a social role, and do not have agreed local plans to 8 Mapping Oxfordshire an environmental role as well as an meet the NPPF, and have been able economic emphasis. And it defined to push though major developments 9 Oxfordshire’s footpaths sustainable development using the in Oxfordshire villages, completely 10 Minerals Plan United Nations definition ‘meeting contrary to David Cameron’s promise 11 Transport update the needs of the present without that he was not going to foist estates compromising the ability of future of houses onto villages without the 12 Out and about with CPRE generations to meet their own needs’. agreement of the villagers. DIRECTORY Views expressed in the Voice are not necessarily We were encouraged by statements Districts are now being forced to put those of CPRE Oxfordshire, which welcomes from government ministers. David forward plans which accept the vastly independent comment. Cameron: “I love our countryside and overstated ‘objectively assessed Editor: Helena Whall would do nothing to put it at risk” need’ for housing as expressed in the Cover: Rosehips, West Lockinge. Photo: Helena Whall (Conservative Conference 2011). Four SHMA - the Strategic Housing Market Articles, letters, comments and suggestions for of our County MPs in a newspaper Assessment (see page 4). These figures articles are welcome. Please contact the Branch letter, dated September 2011, said: incorporate aggressive forecasts of Office below. Published November 2015 “These reforms will sweep away the future development by the Local District Chairmen imposition of housing numbers from Enterprise Partnership which have CPRE Oxfordshire Branch Whitehall. Housing numbers will been prepared in order to justify bids Brian Wood 01869 337904 become a matter for local councils to to the Government Growth Fund, and [email protected] Banbury: Chris Hone 01295 265379 determine in their local plans, and put European funds. Bicester: Vacant 01491 612079 power firmly back into the hands of [email protected] local people”. That these figures have been produced Henley & Mapledurham: Judith Crockett and accepted without any public 01491 612801. [email protected] Oxford: Sietske Boeles 01865 728153 It has not worked out that way at consultation is the basis of a campaign [email protected] all. And there is a curious ability we intend to develop (see page 6). The Thame & Bullingdon: Michael Tyce of ministers to continue to protest government argues that it is in favour 01844 339274 [email protected] Vale of White Horse: Peter Collins that local people have an input into of ‘localism’, but in practise it sets the St Edmund Hall, Oxford OX1 4AR planning decisions. rules and effectively takes decisions Wallingford: Richard Harding out of the hands of local people. 01491 836425 [email protected] In fact, if anything, the planning West Oxfordshire: Justine Garbutt (acting Chair) process is more centralised than it Brian Wood 01993 837681 [email protected] was. Ministers and MPs have been told Chairman, CPRE Oxfordshire BRANCH OFFICE CPRE Oxfordshire, First Floor, 20 High Street, Watlington, Oxfordshire OX49 5PY All this for for (Registered office) just £3 a month! Stand up for your countryside T: 01491 612079 Membership of CPRE gives you: E: [email protected] Join CPRE l Oxfordshire is a beautiful l An active role in protecting Oxfordshire Campaign Briefing, www.cpreoxon.org.uk rural county with a glorious our countryside a monthly e-mail newsletter city at its heart. Help keep it detailing campaign updates Follow us on Twitter @CPREOxfordshire l Both local and national rural, tranquil and beautiful. l membership of CPRE Countryside Voice, the official You can join us in our work, CPRE national magazine, three and like us on make a donation or leave a l Access to local events and issues a year www.facebook.com/CPREOxfordshire legacy. meetings www.cpreoxon.org.uk l Half price admission to some of CPRE Oxfordshire is registered in England as T: 01491 612079 l Oxfordshire Bulletin, our bi-annual the finest houses and gardens E: [email protected] CPRE Oxfordshire magazine in England. Charity No.1093081 and Company No. 4443278. 2 CPRE Oxfordshire voice Autumn 2015 OxClean’s Spring Clean, 2016 Northern taken up the challenge and is leading Gateway OxClean a national anti-litter campaign, Clean for the Queen (www.cleanforthequeen. update co.uk), particularly aimed at the Despite strenuous objections from countryside. CPRE, local residents and other campaign groups, a Planning The dates of the next OxClean Spring Inspector this summer accepted Clean are Friday 4 March – Sunday Oxford City Council’s proposals 6 March 2016. The Oxclean website for development in the Northern provides advice on how to organise Gateway area. This will include a litter pick and liaise with local 500 houses and 90,000m2 of authorities (www.oxclean.org.uk/). employment space around There may be some funding for litter the already hugely congested pickers and high viz. vests. Wolvercote roundabout / Peartree Since 2006 OxClean, a branch of interchange area of the City. As Oxford Civic Society, has organised an Please take part in this campaign to well as the landscape impact and annual Spring Clean in Oxford during clean up our beautiful countryside! loss of Green Belt land, concerns the first weekend in March. All Oxford centre on the likelihood of a universities and schools take part, with Rosanne Bostock growth in traffic and congestion. about 2,000 members of the public OxClean This would increase the area’s volunteering a couple of hours. existing air pollution problems CPRE is collaborating on a project and could threaten both human When OxClean started about ten tons with other organisations to tackle health and the biodiversity of of litter was collected, now it is down litter called Litter Action (www.litter- Port Meadow, a Special Area of to about 7 tons. OxClean’s nudge to action.org.uk). It will be delivered by Conservation (SAC). Wolvercote the primary and secondary schools a partnership of the public, private Action Group is gathering evidence and Oxford City Council has led to an and third sectors, including Govern- on this issue in advance of the ongoing improvement in standards. ment, academia and the media. For detailed planning application more information contact: Saman- which is expected to come forward Now Country Life magazine, in [email protected] early next year. conjunction with Keep Britain Tidy, has Adrian Arbib Adrian Save Port Meadow Campaign In October last year, Oxford University took until September this year for the of one storey of the building, remains put forward its retrospective University to provide that additional the minimal solution in line with Environmental Statement of its detail. They continue to claim that the Environmental Impact Assessment accommodation blocks at Port harm is justified by the urgent need to (EIA) regulations. The decision now Meadow, and confirmed the provide student accommodation. With lies with the City Council’s West Area ‘substantial harm’ the development help from our incredible and tireless Planning Committee. However, they had caused. Oxford City Council supporters, the Save Port Meadow must act within the bounds of the EIA then requested further information, Campaign Group and CPRE have made regulations or potentially face further particularly in relation to the costs it clear that this is unacceptable and legal action. of the various mitigation options. It that Option 3, which includes removal Join the debate. Join the campaign. Join CPRE 3 Oxfordshire Local Plan round-up Cherwell South Oxfordshire consideration of matters concerning Cherwell’s new Local Plan (Part 1) The SHMA proposes 15,000 homes the AONB and Green Belt to Stage was adopted by Cherwell District for South Oxfordshire for the period Two, despite 14% of the number of Council in July. Essentially it endorses up to 2031; the current Core Strategy, homes in strategic sites proposed the Inspector’s insistence that the adopted only two years earlier, for these areas. Nevertheless, CPRE Strategic Housing Market Assessment proposed 11,487. and others were able to make strong (SHMA) should be followed exactly, and representations to the Inspector means that room has been found for Deciding to update its Plan in light against the inappropriateness of the no less than 22,840 new houses to be of the SHMA, SODC issued a public Vale’s proposal to build 1,400 homes built by 2031. Most of these have been consultation in June 2014 called in the North Wessex Downs AONB and allocated to Bicester, Banbury and Issues and Options, followed with 1,510 homes in the Green Belt. to the old air base at Upper Heyford. a Refined Options consultation in It is expected that Bicester will February 2015.
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