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Showdown meeting over housing plan
4:35pm Sunday 20th July 2008
Oxfordshire MPs Tony Baldry and John Howell are set for a showdown meeting with housing minister Caroline Flint tomorrow.
And the Tory duo are sure to put two controversial housing developments at the top of the agenda.
On Friday, the Oxford Mail revealed that Communities Secretary Hazel Blears approved, in principle, a 4,000-housing development on land south of Grenoble Road, on the edge of Oxford.
The news was welcomed by Oxford City Council, but opposed by South Oxfordshire District Council.
Part of the land planners want to develop falls within South Oxfordshire, in newly-elected Mr Howell's Henley constituency.
Meanwhile, debate continues to rumble on about the merits of the eco-town proposal at Weston Otmoor, one of the so-called "Brown's Town's", which Mr Baldry is vehemently opposed to.
No final decision has been made on the scheme, which planners claim could provide 15,000 new homes and provide rapid transport links to Oxford and London.
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Peter, Oxford says...
5:40pm Sun 20 Jul 08
A done deal folks,get used to it.
Have people not noticed how the school in Greater Leys is being extended. It's numbers are currently below requirements for the school but they know these houses are coming and therefore kids are coming. This is another example of a decision being made before joe public know about it. Notice our fat overpayed MP, Mr Smith, is keeping hids head down over this.
Mr Ison, England says...
5:51pm Sun 20 Jul 08
Rockabilly Dude, Half Way To Memphis says...
9:09pm Sun 20 Jul 08
.how she will soon be looking for her first real job outside of professional politics.
DanOxford, says...
9:18pm Sun 20 Jul 08
Rockabilly Dude wrote:NuLabour don't give a sh*t about the white working class (eg- many of the residents of The Leys) The 'working class' have failed to rise up and embrace Socialism, so they've moved on to championing more 'trendy' causes.
Ms. Flint needs to have a few things explained to her. Like...ignoring the will of the people is a betrayal of everything Labour are supposed to represent...when Labour politicians get in bed with American big money, to destroy our British countryside, a serious wrong is being done....how lying and misleading the electorate will be her undoing...how she should be more careful in her dealings with Parkridge/Prologis.. .how she will soon be looking for her first real job outside of professional politics.
The Universities expand, brownfield sites are turned over to student accomodation and more and more economic immigrants are allowed in, accomodated several to former family homes inside the ring road in so locals are forced further out and we lose our greenbelt.
If NuLabour politicians find this an acceptable trade- off, maybe they should build bungalows in their own back gardens to accomodate the extra people.
Mr Ison, England says...
9:34pm Sun 20 Jul 08
Uneconomic immigration is where the action is.
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Tom, the real world says...
5:05pm Sun 20 Jul 08
A done deal folks,get used to it.