Kidlington Development Watch
Stop Oxford's Sprawl !

Contact local Councillors and MP

It's time to start lobbying the decision makers

URGENT: Cherwell District Councillors will vote on the local Plan on Monday 26th February. YOu could write to some or all of them directly. Consider copying to our MP and other leading elected decision makers.

Ask them to oppose Cherwell's plan to take land out of the Green Belt and concentrate extra housing close Oxford.

To help you their email addresses can be downloaded here.

Link to Cherwell Councillors Mailing list

Kidlington Parish Councilors Aug 2017

Table of email addresses and roles. Also csv list for ease of bulk mailing

KidlingtonParishCouncilAug2017.doc

Microsoft Word Document 43.5 KB

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Your Councillors

See the Parish Council site

The links here tell you more about each Councillor and the committees they sit on.

There is also an email link.

Layla Moran MP

Layla Moran is MP for Oxford West and Abingdon

While MPs do not usually play an active role in planning consultations at District or Local Level they should, in our view be open to community concerns over local amenities and threats to the Green Belt.

Current Government policy is to protect the Green Belt.

Stratfield Brake and Oxford United FC

Fri 14 Jan 2022

At the time of writing, a proposal has just been made for a new 18,000 capacity football stadium for Oxford United together with leisure, retail, hotel and conference centre developments to be built on the Stratfield Brake Sports Ground. We argue that this appears to be an inappropriate development that is not in Kidlington’s long term interests. The proposal has been launched with a massive PR drive aimed at obscuring the very real planning concerns.

It would be in one of the few remaining areas of Green Belt that separate Kidlington from Oxford and is likely to be very unwelcome to residents in the surrounding areas and the new housing developments. The stadium would be a large and dominating structure; a similar new stadium for Brentford FC is as high as a seven-storey residential block. Further commercial, retail and leisure development is also proposed, so there would be much increased activity most of the time. This would put extra pressure on the surrounding road network and infrastructure, on top of that already arising from the 4,400 new homes to be built. On-street parking problems are likely. It would also be an unsuitable neighbour to the Stratfield Brake Nature Reserve and the new nature conservation area at Stratfield Farm.

The development would weaken the possibility of creating the 'Kidlington green ring' we are proposing via the Local Plan. It seems to be a further step towards becoming merged with Oxford. The development of this site appears in none of Cherwell District Council’s plans and in 2017 it rejected a similar proposal at an early stage but cannot see that anything has changed to alter that position.

We enjoy football and wish Oxford United FC every success - but not at this cost. Stratfield is simply not the right location for massive commercial development.

KDW calls on Cherwell to protect our green Spaces

Mon 08 Nov 2021

Cherwell district Council - Local Plan 2040 consultation

KDW's response to Cherwell Council's current consultation on its local plan is now available to download.

We support and expand on Kidlington Parish Council's initial proposal for a linked network of 'Local Green Spaces" (LGS) surrounding the village. We focus on the positive reasons for LGS designation rather than reasons why the surrounding Green Belt sites should not be built upon.

Kidlington Parish Council sites in Local Plan 2040 - green for nature, pink for development

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