Ash dieback hits Bicester copse
Written by Local Group Web Manager: Jane Tomlinson
Dieback disease: 20 ash trees planted earlier this year to celebrate CPRE's 80th anniversary have today been destroyed
Quiet lanes are designed to pay special attention to the needs of walkers, cyclists and horse riders, and reduce the problems caused by the volume and speed of traffic and the presence of heavy lorries.
Village green preservation: a change in the law
Written by Local Group Web Manager: Jane Tomlinson
A Village Green or Town Green is, to most of us, a green, open or undeveloped space within a settlement.
Organised chaos: a change of planning
Written by Local Group Web Manager: Jane TomlinsonWe had hoped that the changes in planning policy announced earlier this year would have had time by now to bed in, and that we would be able to assess their impacts, both good and bad.
Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor: overwhelmed by planning applications
Written by Local Group Web Manager: Jane TomlinsonSpare a thought for Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor which has been overwhelmed with planning applications to build more than 300 new homes. Villagers say they simply don't have the infrastructure to cope with such a huge increase in population.
Wallingford retirement village and CABI HQ ‘inappropriate invasion’
Written by Local Group Web Manager: Jane TomlinsonWe have written to the Secretary of State, Eric Pickles, to ask him to rethink a decision to build a retirement village and care home near Wallingford which was approved by South Oxfordshire District Council’s (SODC) Planning Committee last week.
