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Creating a positive future for Oxfordshire
We need you to join us in our work towards a positive future for rural Oxfordshire!
Live in Chipping Norton or Charlbury? CPRE West Oxon needs you!
CPRE West Oxfordshire is looking for committee members living in, or near, Chipping Norton and Charlbury.
SODC Stabs Green Belt in the Back
Once it’s biggest supporter, South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) has turned against the Green Belt. CPRE believes the South Oxfordshire Local Plan will include all sites in the previous, aborted 2017 version plus additional major sites within the Green Belt. Amongst the new greenbelt incursions will be Grenoble Road, Northfields, Oxford Brookes and a site north of the city on the ring road.
One Week to Help Protect the Vale Countryside
The consultation on the Thames Water revised draft Water Resources Management Plan runs until 28 November.
Please respond NOW to help protect the Vale countryside.
Public to have say on new National Parks
For the first time in nearly 70 years, the public will have their say on how the country’s most cherished landscapes can be enhanced for future generations.
A depressing day for the countryside
Proposed large scale housing developments on both Cherwell and Vale of White Horse Green Belt land given the go ahead.
Oxford Central Conservation Area Consultation
Oxford City Council held a long overdue review of Oxford Central’s conservation area, whcich ended on 26th October.
Government Response to Ox-Cam Arc is devastating blow for local democracy and our countryside
The Government acceptance of recommendations from the National Infrastructure Commission to develop the Oxford-Cambridge Arc despite no formal public consultation, environmental assessment or parliamentary inquiry having taken place, is a ‘devastating blow for local democracy and the countryside’, says CPRE.
Oxford-Cambridge Arc puts Birmingham sized area of countryside at risk
27,000 hectares of farmland and woodland threatened by Oxford-Cambridge Arc, according to CPRE analysis
The Government is set to accept a recommendation from the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC), this Monday (29 October), to build 1 million new homes between Oxford, Milton Keynes and Cambridge.
