Posts by Nemone Caldwell

Oxfordshire groups representing thousands of the County’s residents call for an independent review of the Oxfordshire Growth Needs Assessment. Oxfordshire groups have written a joint letter to the leaders of all Oxfordshire Councils (Note 1) calling for an independent review of the Oxfordshire Growth Needs Assessment (OGNA), the document that sets out the basis for…

Is your neighbourhood on the map? CPRE Flooding and Pollution Map (Nov 2021) Thanks to the Town and Parish councils who responded to our Flooding and Pollution survey we have a good picture of the flooding and pollution issues across Oxfordshire. However, there may be areas that have been missed. If your village or town…

CPRE Oxfordshire has published a report identifying issues of flooding and water quality across the County.  Findings show that at least 17% of towns & parishes in Oxfordshire experience flooding problems and at least 20% of towns & parishes experience issues with sewage/sewerage infrastructure. CPRE Oxfordshire sent a survey to the 235 Parish Councils, 15…

Join us to look at some of the opportunities & challenges ahead.    Speakers will be the inspirational founder of Farm-ED Ian Wilkinson, the author and naturalist John Wright on Hedgerows, Andrew Tucker from Thames Water focusing on the steps we can all take to reduce water demand, and Richard Benwell, Chief Executive of Countryside…

CPRE Oxfordshire believes that an independent peer-review of the Oxfordshire Growth Needs Assessment is required in order to address concerns about its approach that deviates from the Government’s Standard Methodology and pushes assumptions consistently towards the higher growth proposed in the Oxfordshire Plan 2050. The Government’s Standard Method, based on ONS 2014 standard household projections…

Image: Jericho, Oxford. Credit: Kamyar Adl/flickr CPRE Oxfordshire believes the answer is simple: higher density housing that is good for the pocket and the planet. The Oxfordshire Plan 2050 offers an opportunity to develop houses local people can afford. CPRE Oxfordshire argues that new housing should be well-designed, higher density, low cost and use the minimum amount…

WE NEED A FAIR & ROBUST CONSULTATION PROCESS Update – new consultation deadline date – 19th November 2021. Documents republished with revised redactions.  The next step for Thames Water’s plans for a mega-reservoir near Abingdon is to pass a ‘GATE 1’ approval process being run by RAPID, a joint Ofwat, Environment Agency and Drinking Water…

Proposals for significant new housing and infrastructure development are bypassing critical safeguards for environment Government plans for rapid growth and development between Oxford and Cambridge, known as the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, risk damaging impacts on nature and climate unless they urgently rethink their approach, according to nature conservation and countryside charities the RSPB, The Woodland Trust,…

In the midst of planning chaos – help us get countryside voices heard. Please help us raise £10,000 match funding to recruit a Planning Co-ordinator. Oxfordshire has been identified as a ‘growth hub’ – OxCam Arc proposals are lining us up for a near doubling of our housing stock and population by 2050.  Many of our…

2021 marks 90 years of CPRE Oxfordshire. We will be taking a look back at past campaigns, how the county has changed and what it might look like in the future. CPRE Oxfordshire was founded on 7th March 1931 at the County Hall, Oxford. John Buchan, author and MP became CPRE Oxfordshire’s first Chairman. At that…