Oxford Green Belt Network Our Mission is to Preserve and Protect the whole of the Oxford Green Belt Oxford Green Belt Network
– for the benefit of all who treasure our beautiful City and for all who live
in the Green Belt and beyond.
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Newsletter for June 2010
The latest OGBN Newsletter is now available on the Newsletters page.

Oxford Core Strategy
Oxford Green Belt Network welcomes the deletion from this Plan of all reference to an urban extension south of Oxford. But we are opposed to development at the "Northern Gateway", especially on two areas of Green Belt land included in this development site. We expect to take part in the resumed public inquiry which may be in July 2010

Chiltern Railways
We accept that the proposed Oxford to London line via Bicester will bring advantages to travellers by rail. But at Water Eaton, where a parkway station is proposed, we do not wish to see industrial development spill out into the Green Belt. So we are opposed to any attempt to relocate the aggregates depot and to build a waste processing centre on nearby Green Belt land. We expect to take part in the public inquiry which is likely in the Autumn of 2010.

Wind Turbines
We remain committed to opposing wind turbines in the Oxford Green Belt. We are therefore strongly opposed to the two giant turbines proposed at Cutteslowe Park and Horspath. Such turbines need huge subsidies, only work when the wind blows so need back up power, and they destroy much loved views of our Green Belt countryside.

Photographer Rob Bennett
Concerned local residents and the view that would be lost if the urban extension went ahead (September 2008)

The Oxford Green Belt Network was established in 1997 to:
          • Protect the setting of the Historic City of Oxford from the
            urban sprawl which had damaged so many other cities (though none as beautiful as ours).
          • Protect the individual towns and villages around Oxford from
            being swallowed up into an expanding City and allowing them to retain their cherished separate identities.
          • Preserve open countryside close at hand as a green lung for the health and enjoyment of City dwellers.
The clamour of developers against the Green Belt is stronger now than it has ever been.

The creators of the Green Belt foresaw this and said that the essence of the Green Belt is its permanence
– that is what we fight to ensure.

If you need help with a threat to the Green Belt where you live; or would like more information about what we do;
or would like to help us in our work – contact us by e-mail at webmaster@oxfordgreenbelt.net