Oxford Green Belt Network

Save Oxford Green Belt

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.

Latest News of the Green Belt

The OGBN Newsletter for February 2012 is now available.

National Planning Policy Framework
We have responded to this Government consultation on the future of the planning system, drawing attention to what we see as the reduced protection that it gives to Green Belts. See our response (PDF format) .

Other responses can be found from Waterstock, from Horspath PC, in a letter to the Oxford Times, 6th October 2011, and from CPRE Oxfordshire.

Some views from the local press -
22nd September 2011 - Oxford Times front page on 'Plans free-for-all will ruin villages'.
29th September 2011 - Oxford Times front page on 'Bid to redraw city's boundaries rejected'.

The photograph shows the narrow strip of Green Belt that separates the village of Horspath from the built-up area of Oxford.
Such gaps are essential to protecting a village's identity and one of the principal purposes of the Green Belt is to
preserve them from encroachment. Photo: Copyright © Martin Harris 2000.

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