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Anthony Morris RSPB Otmoor pics A NEW national park should be created north east of Oxford to protect wetlands and woodlands in the area, an environmental campaign group has said. The 36 square mile reserve would cover most of the rural countryside north east of the Oxford Ring Road, between the A40 to the south, the A34 to the west, and the M40 to the north and east. It would include Otmoor, where there is already an RSPB nature reserve, Bernwood and Stowood forests, the site of special scientific interest at Sydlings Copse, and the Cherwell valley near Water Eaton. Campaign group Bioabundance has called for the area to be protected, possibly as a National Nature Reserve.
A PLANNING application for two data centres on part of the former Didcot A Power Station site has been submitted. Willow Developments LLC submitted the application in January to the Vale and South Oxfordshire District councils. It is hoped the data centres will be a valuable addition to the Science Vale and its economy and offer hundreds of construction jobs as well as direct employment once it is built. These buildings will contain data halls, associated electrical and plant rooms, loading bay and storage space, office administration areas and screened plant at roof level and will also include emergency generators, diesel tanks and filling area, electrical switch room, water sprinkler pump room and storage tank, a security building, site access, internal access road, plus hard standing and soft landscaping.
Flooding at fields off Grenoble Road over the last weekend in January 2021. THERE are concerns over the site for potentially thousands of new homes after the fields became inundated by floodwater over the weekend. Land off Grenoble Road, Oxford, has been earmarked for between 1,700 and 3,000 new homes in a controversial housing plan. But some of the fields where the new homes could be built as a result of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan were left underwater over the weekend, as Oxfordshire bore witness to flooding for the third weekend this year. A local householder who did not want to be named, took pictures of water on the fields and expressed fears over whether they would be suitable for new houses.
Homeowners in Didcot gave feedback on the ‘garden town’ plans asking for better cycle routes, a community feel and better services. In 2015, the Government awarded Didcot ‘garden town’ status, endorsing the delivery of 15,000 new jobs and 20,000 new homes in the area. According to the developers the concept of a ‘garden town’ encompasses the idea of building a ‘complete and wholesome’ place to live. The ‘garden town’ development should have a clear identity, green space, integrated transport, and well-designed homes. The Residents Sounding Board is one of three groups set up by Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire District Councils to collate direct feedback to the advisory board on important topics for residents living and working within Didcot and the wider garden town area.