Archive for October 2024
Citizen Science – Ancient and Veteran Trees
You can’t protect it if you don’t know it’s there! Knowing the countryside is the first step to protecting it, and it’s local people who are best placed to do this. There are lots of citizen science projects you can get involved with, from measuring water quality in your local river, to monitoring pollinators in…
Read MoreJoint South Oxon and Vale of White Horse Local Plan enters final stages – but what about the Green Belt?
Following two previous stages of consultation, where CPRE Oxfordshire and our supporters actively engaged, the Joint South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse Local Plan is now entering the final stage before being submitted for external examination to the Planning Inspector. At this technical stage (known as Reg19) we are only allowed to comment of…
Read MoreInspector Rejects Draft Oxford City Local Plan, Creating Opportunity to Save the Green Belt
The draft Oxford City Local Plan, proposing highly inflated housing numbers to be largely offloaded to surrounding districts and the Green Belt, has been rejected by the Planning Inspector. The Plan, which prioritised its own city centre brownfield sites for employment rather than homes, used housing numbers based on the methodology of the highly criticised…
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