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Abingdon- On-Thames Botley Oxford SAVE THE VALE GREEN BELT KEY A34 VALE GREEN BELT Wytham ProposeD GREEN BELT removaL OXFORD proposeD GREEN Farmoor BELT HOUSING North Botley Hinksey Cumnor South Hinksey s e m Kennington a h T r e iv R Wootton 270 houses Appleton 800 houses A415 240 houses Sunningwell 200 houses Dry Sandford Radley A420 Shippon Frilford Abingdon- Marcham on-Thames WWW.CPREOXON.ORG.UK SAVE THE VALE GREEN BELT Your Green Belt is under threat! You are invited to a PUBLIC MEETING at Long Furlong Community Centre, Boulter Drive, Abingdon Tuesday 2 December, 7.30pm-9.00pm The Vale of White Horse District Council’s draft Local Plan proposes to build 1,510 houses in the Green Belt at: North West Abingdon (200 houses), North Abingdon (800), South Kennington (270) and North West Radley (240). It also recommends removing many parcels of land from the Green Belt at: Abingdon, Appleton, Botley, Cumnor, Farmoor, Kennington, Radley and Wootton. These areas will not be safe from development in the future. Why it isn’t necessary to Find out more build on the Green Belt Please come to the Long Furlong Community Centre, Boulter Drive, Abingdon, on Tuesday The Vale Local Plan is based on exaggerated housing 2 December, 7.30pm-9.00pm, when CPRE Oxfordshire figures which call for 100,000 houses to be built in will give a brief summary of the Vale Local Plan and Oxfordshire by 2031, the equivalent of a 40% increase host a question and answer session about the details, in housing within 17 years. This includes 20,560 new the implications for the Vale Green Belt, and how to houses in the Vale (two years ago, the Vale said it only respond to the consultation on the Vale Local Plan (the needed 13,000 houses). consultation ends on 19 December). The Local Plan has not taken into account environmental and social constraints, like the Green Belt, in deciding How you can help where to locate the extra houses it says are ‘needed’. 4 Come to the meeting Planning guidance gives Green Belt land special 4 protection from inappropriate development, which Respond to the consultation should not be approved except in ‘very special 4 Support CPRE Oxfordshire’s ‘Protect Rural circumstances’. Unmet housing need is not an Oxfordshire’ Campaign at: exceptional circumstance to justify taking land out of the Green Belt. www.justgiving.com/protectruraloxfordshire CPRE Oxfordshire is registered charity which exists to protect and promote the Oxfordshire countryside. We are dependent on local people for income and support. For more details email: [email protected] | telephone: 01865 874780 www.cpreoxon.org.uk | facebook.com/CPREOxfordshire | Twitter@CPREOxfordshire Please use the other side of this leaflet as a poster in your window! CPRE Oxfordshire is registered in England as Charity No.1093081 and Company No. 4443278 at CPRE Oxfordshire, Unit 1, London Road, Wheatley, Oxford OX33 1JH.
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