Archive for March 2023

10am Sunday 30th April, meeting at Thornhill Park & Ride, Oxford. Join us on a 10 km (6 mile) guided walk leaving urban Oxford and exploring the surrounding countryside, including the Oxford Green Belt. Booking essential, click here for more information and to book a place. Free – donations are welcome either on the day…

Countryside charity CPRE Oxfordshire is claiming a campaign win after its calls for a county-wide renewable energy strategy appear to have been acknowledged. The Future Oxfordshire Partnership has met to consider a proposal for a Local Area Energy Plan, as part of a broader Pathways to Zero Carbon Oxfordshire (PaZCo) Action Plan. Helen Marshall, Director,…

Oxford City is currently consulting on a new round of high growth-based housing figures for Oxford. Brownfield sites are being prioritised for employment, meaning the pressure on housing supply in the city will increase with ‘affordable’ housing remaining out of reach for most households. CPRE Oxfordshire believes these sites should instead be focused on high…

CPRE South Oxfordshire and Vale of the White Horse responded to this consultation in June 2022.  A review of the consultation has now been published and is available to download. We are encouraged that the majority of the issues we raised in the consultation appear in the report and and we trust they will be…

Will yet more Oxford City overspill be coming soon to a Green Belt near you?   The same consultants are back with a new round of high growth based housing figures for Oxford. But with brownfield sites in the City still being prioritised for jobs growth rather than housing, it looks like the City Council will…