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.
Join our Campaign to get their   "Hands off Our Green Belt !"

Bad News for the Green Belt

On 17th July the Government announced its wish to review the Green Belt to the south of Oxford. This is to enable a huge estate of some 4,000 houses to be built south of Grenoble Road.

Like the County Council and South Oxfordshire District Council we believe that this is the wrong kind of development in the wrong place. We believe there are better ways of addressing the housing needs of Oxford that would preserve the Green Belt intact.

Now there is a 12-week consultation period. The Oxford Green Belt Network will use this time to make its views known to the Government.

The following press releases have been issued:

Newsletter for May 2008 now available.

April 2008 - Current Concerns. Thoughts on our present worries about threats to the Oxford green belt.

7 May 2008 "Oxford Green Belt – Robustly Protected or Under Threat?" - CPRE Press release (PDF format 58 Kb).

Have you signed the SODC "Hands off Our Green Belt" e-petition? It only takes a couple of minutes, so why not do it now!
(If you have difficulty signing the e-petition, you might find some help here.)

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