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Newsletter Issue 1

Resisting Inappropriate Development in Sunningwell Parish

The following sites will provide you with more information on the campaign

 

The web version of the Sunningwell Scene : news from the Parish Council

The Highways Agency has launched a web site in conjunction with the start of public consultation on the Regional Management Strategy it is developing for the A34. It can be found here This site is of particular importance to our campaign as the so called "Penbridge eco village" will rely totally on the A34 for its transport links. In particular the provision of south facing slip roads at the A4183 Junction would be of vital importance to the proposal and this must be resisted.

Oxford Preservation Trust have campaigned with great success to preserve the enviroment in and around Oxford for many years. They are involved in the campaign to resist the inclusion of development in the Green Belt in the new structure plan for the county. Their website can be found here .

South Oxfordshire District Council are also resisting the inclusion of development in the Green Belt in the new structure plan for the county. They have a page on their website giving further details which can be found here

The Vale of the White Horse District Council also have a page on their website with initial reactions to the Wilcox proposal : Proposed Development At Sunningwell Contrary To Green Belt Policy

The South East England Regional Assembly has a comprehensive website and a related site devoted to its development of the South East Plan

Not everyone agrees with the establishment of Regional Assemblies:

RegionalAssemblies.co.uk is an umbrella site for groups resisting Regional Assemblies and www.south-east-cc.co.uk is devoted to resisting the South East England Regional Assembly.

Cheshire County Council have started the ball rolling by anouncing their intention to quit the NWRA. Tory controlled Cheshire County Council are about to give a years notice of their intention to leave the North West Regional Assembly. Neil Herron (the champion of the North East Referendum) has started a blog on this subject. If you would like to read the blog and find a link to the Northwich Guardian which printed this story please click here - Neil Herron's blog on Cheshire Council leaving NWRA .

Locally councils are changing their attitude to the South East Regional Assembly:

"Tories plot abolition of SE regional assembly" Wokingham Times, 24/11/04

The Wokingham Times reported that Wokingham's top councillor plans to get the South East Regional Assembly to abolish itself at its AGM next March. Its report included the following:

"Cllr Frank Browne, Conservative leader of Wokingham District Council, will be putting forward a motion to get rid of the assembly, claiming central government's failure to install a regional assembly in the North East - somewhere the Government expected devolved power to succeed - proves no one wants regional assemblies." This article is not online but the District council website has a well argued statement on the South East Plan consultation here


You may have noticed that this site, like the Long Now Foundation, uses five digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to todays "faster/cheaper" mind set and promote "slower/better" thinking. They hope to creatively foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.

 

 

 

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