Join our Green Defenders Network!

Become a frontline volunteer and help make sure that new development doesn’t concrete the countryside.  Do you care about: We are urgently looking for planning volunteers to help us make sure new development respects and supports our amazing local countryside. We can provide all the info and training.  You need to be: Whether it’s to…

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Call for public inquiry

CPRE Oxfordshire supports GARD (Group Against Reservoir Development) in Public Inquiry demand for Thames Water’s mega-reservoir. CPRE Oxfordshire is backing GARD’s calls for a Public Inquiry and is also writing to the Secretary of State for the Environment to request this.  Thames Water has consistently failed to engage with the strong evidence presented to it…

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Botley West – Consultation -CLOSES 8 FEB

Solar Array

The current consultation on the massive Botley West solar farm closes on Thurs 8 Feb – have your say! Information and a response form is available on the developers’ website here, or you can simply email your views to: info@botleywest.co.uk CPRE Oxfordshire’s response is available at the foot of this page. In it we raise…

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Botley West Update Christmas 2023

Botley West developers look set to ruin Christmas for thousands of Oxfordshire residents. The developers behind the massive Botley West solar farm look set to spoil Christmas for many local people by putting their plans out for consultation over the festive period. Both CPRE Oxfordshire and the Stop Botley West campaign group specifically asked the…

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Oxford Local Plan

Oxford Local Plan 2040 Reg 19 consultation – CPRE Oxfordshire Response This consultation has now closed.  You can see the CPRE Oxfordshire response in full below. A summary of our concerns and the policies we have challenged is included in the CPRE Oxon Response_Final document. This includes: We have also registered our support for proposed…

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Springalls Wood – Swyncombe

CPRE frustrated with developers exaggerating land’s development potential. Local opposition grows strong against a prospective planning proposal that will endanger an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Historic Woodland. The plots in question put forth by Barney Estates, have raised significant concerns among residents and conservation groups.  It aims to alter the 20-acre landscape of…

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CPRE and Wild Oxfordshire – the return of Hedgerow Heroes

Jess Bouwer, of Wild Oxfordshire, discussing hedge planting in Ewelme CPRE and Wild Oxfordshire are delighted to announce the next stage in the Hedgerow Heroes initiative, working at seven sites across Oxfordshire.  CPRE and Wild Oxfordshire are really excited to be working with the community groups and parish councils of Dorchester on Thames, Great Haseley,…

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Help look after & improve the Oxford Green Belt Way

CPRE Oxfordshire needs your help to look after and improve this wonderful local walking route and enable more people to experience it. If you enjoy walking, running or riding the Oxford Green Belt Way, or if you would like to give others the opportunity to do so, please will you help us? The first £1,000…

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Development Proposed for Green Belt Golf Course

Outline planning permission has been submitted to build 1.2 million sq.foot of industrial and office units on Waterstock Golf Club. Deadline for comments is 10th September, visit the South Oxfordshire District Council website for more information and to have your say. CPRE South Oxfordshire object to the planning proposal, read the response below:

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