On 12 September, at an online meet a Green councillor event, some of our Green councillors from Oxford, Witney and Stanford-in-the-Vale talked about their work.

Read more to watch a video recording.

On the 7th September 2020 Conservatives on Cherwell District Council pushed through adoption of  its local plan Partial review (Oxford's Unmet Need), in the face of fierce opposition from local and national campaign groups and local residents.  All Conservatives, apart from 2, who attended the meeting voted for the motion to adopt the plan, with all other councillors voting against.  There were no abstentions in a named vote.

Cherwell District Council this morning issued a press release making outlandish claims about biodiversity and access to green space, attempting to put a positive spin on this culmination of 4 years of concerted effort to ignore local residents.

The plan calls for the building of 4,400 houses on protected Green Belt land, despite expert evidence suggesting this was not the most sustainable location for this development on the grounds of impact to the local environment and the obliteration of several distinct communities.

At the council meeting on 7th September, Conservative councillors pushed forward changes to the local plan that would concrete over vital greenbelt land.  Progressive Oxfordshire, a coalition of Liberal Democrats, Greens, and Independent councillors, voted against the measure that local residents also oppose. 

It has recently emerged that the proposed housing for the sites located on greenbelt land between the villages of Kidlington, Yarnton, and Begbroke will not be under the jurisdiction of Cherwell Council and will be allocated by Oxford City Council, bypassing local needs and concerns.

Residents of Kidlington, Yarnton, and Begbroke have consistently and loudly opposed the removal of greenbelt land for development.

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An evening with the Lord Mayor

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