A collective submission opposing Faringdon Neighbourhood Plan's proposal to turn Wicklesham Quarry into a 20 acre industrial estate has been submitted this week to the Vale of White Horse District Council, together with hundreds of signatures of supporters of the campaign to PROTECT WICKLESHAM QUARRY FROM DEVELOPMENT. The submission states that FNP fails to meet the 'Basic Conditions' by - * seeking to make provisions on county matters which are 'excluded development'; * failing to be in general conformity with Local Plan strategic policies; * failing to have regard to national policies and guidelines, including the National Planning Policy Framework and ODPM Circular 06/05; * being in breach of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act; and * failing to show any justification or necessity for a policy which would harm a Site of Special Scientific Interest of international importance as a unique 'type' site, as well as being a Conservation Target Area, with both European Protected Species and Priority Habitat. The submission demonstrates that the neighbourhood plan 'data' are inaccurate and misleading, and objects to the inclusion of material that Faringdon Council has failed to make available for public scrutiny, privately commissioned by the landowner. I have informed the Inspector that Faringdon Council and the FNP Steering Group have failed to correct the many glaring inaccuracies and misleading statements brought to their attention in the last public consultation, & ignored complaints already made on all these grounds. They have also omitted crucial information about Wicklesham Quarry's importance for biodiversity, its CTA status, and continue to claim - wrongly - that it is a 'brownfield site.' Observers find all these omissions & deceptions disgraceful, but not altogether surprising. The FNP Steering Group's key members are owners of Wicklesham Estate, Farm & Quarry, together with their land agent. These same individuals are also the producers of the unreliable, grossly misleading, as well as unpublished data which are cited in the Evidence Base. For all these reasons and more, the neighbourhood plan fails to meet the basic conditions, and supporters of the campaign to PROTECT WICKLESHAM QUARRY FROM DEVELOPMENT look forward to a positive outcome from the independent inspection.