Latest Campaign News
February 2012
21 February - CPRE says Oxford's Draft Green Spaces Strategy fails to follow best practice
19 February CPRE submits objection to wind turbine at Wheatley
14 February - New research shows proposed planning reforms will have little or no effect on economic growth.
9 February - 80 tree copse marks CPRE Oxfordshire's 80th anniversary.
9 February - Minister's guidance calls Vale's Interim Housing Supply Policy into question.
6 February - CPRE Vale District opposes Hanson minerals application at Longworth
6 February - New maps show 55% of countrsyide at risk from planning reforms.
2 February - True costs of burying electricity cables revealed as much lower than National Grid estimates.
January 2012
31st January - CPRE Oxfordshire submits Freedom of Information requests in relation to Vale's Interim Housing Supply Policy.
30th January - Tennis court lighting not appropriate for Lyneham.
19th January - CPRE Oxfordshire seeks Public Relations Manager PT).
12th January - CPRE Star Count Survey asks Oxfordshire public to look to the skies to help fight light pollution.
10th January - Government announces high speed rail project to go ahead.
9th January - Survey finds public want farmers to be custodians of the countryside, as CPRE launches its new Vision for the Future of Farming.
December 2011
27th December - Hook Norton residents fight 70 house development.
13th December - Countryside at risk from planning reforms, says new CPRE report.
5th December - CPRE notes Inspector's interim response to SODC's Core Strategy.
November 2011
25th November - CPRE Oxfordshire objects to Vale's Interim Housing Policy.
24th November - Localism Act - is it really about localism? asks CPRE South East.
15th November - Quick development could mean long-term pain for villages in the Vale' says CPRE.
8th November - MPs right to give amber signal to High Speed Rail.
October 2011
31st October - Lower county mineral targets would take pressure off communities says CPRE Oxfordshire.
16th October - Leading planning QC exposes flaws in Government planning reforms.
12th October - CPRE issues quality challenge to house builders.
10th October - CPRE Oxfordshire tells government the planning reforms are "weighted too heavily in favour of economic development at the expense of the environment."
6th October - New research published by CPRE Oxfordshire shows that four out of five local authorities in Oxfordshire will be without a planning Core Strategy on 1st April 2012 when changes to the planning system are expected to take effect.
September 2011
30th September - Government consultation on NPPF - 10 days to go!
29th September - Inspector rejects SODC's call for a Green Belt review at Wheatley.
21st September - 'Government's changes to planning system will undermine purpose of Oxford Green Belt', says Oxfordshire branch of CPRE.
20th September - 'Last Roll of Dice' says Witney Branch of CPRE of Public Inquiry into Cogges Link Road.
13th September - CPRE Oxfordshire welcomes the news that OCC has rejected plans for a huge MBT plant at Sutton Courtenay.
August 2011
1st August - Public Inquiry into Cogges Link Road to be held at the end of September.
1st August - Vale of White Horse Planning Committee rejects WRG's revised planning application for an MBT plant at Sutton Courtenay.
July 2011
26th July - CPRE is appalled by the Government’s proposed changes to the planning system which include a default ‘yes’ to development.
26th July - CPRE responds to City's Sites and Housing DPD Preferred Options consultation.
21st July - Councillors criticise the amended planning application for first phase of the North West Bicester eco-development.
13th July - CPRE objects to WRG's amended application for an MBT plant at Sutton Courtenay.
11th July - Oxfordshire's advertising-free countryside at risk as CPRE forced to abandon its claim for Judicial Review.
8th July - CPRE objects to SODC's Core Strategy proposals to build in Green Belt at Berinsfield and Wheatley.
7th July - A new CPRE project, 'Supporting Communities and Neighbourhoods in Planning', is being launched to help local people to respond to the Localism Bill.
June 2011
28th June - CPRE Oxfordshire responds to HS2 Consultation.
27th June - Smaller wind turbines for Horspath?
14th June - Further delays to OCC Consultation on Minerals and Waste.
2nd June - CPRE launches campaign to protect City's green spaces.
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