The Wicklesham CrowdJustice Appeal goes LIVE at 9.00am on SATURDAY 20th MAY! Please help me to bring this important case by making a donation. Supporters of the campaign to Protect Wicklesham Quarry from Development know that this opportunist proposal has been repeatedly rejected by the Vale of White Horse District Council since 2008. As recently as 2016, in the Examination of the Local Plan 2031, the District Council stated it had seen "no persuasive evidence" to allocate Wicklesham Quarry for employment use, and its location outside the town's settlement boundary made it unsuitable. A 20 acre industrial/ logistics site at Wicklesham Quarry would turn the A420 into a road through Faringdon, rather than a bypass around it. It would allow the A420 at Faringdon to become an industrial development corridor, and bring an unsustainable level of 24 hour HGV traffic onto the A420. Wicklesham's scientific and natural resources are supposed to be protected by its designation as a SSSI of over 31 acres, and its status as a Conservation Target Area in Oxfordshire's Biodiversity Action Plan. Its ponds, which are a Priority Habitat, support breeding colonies of Great Crested Newts, a European Protected Species. Professor M.A. Wilson, who discovered a new genus and 3 new species of Foraminifera at Wicklesham Quarry in the 1980s, states: "I am very much in favour of the highest level of protection for this site that is possible." "Industrial build-up of any kind on the base of the quarry will make future access to the thick extent of gravels beneath the quarry floor very difficult, if not impossible. It will also restrict access to the remaining quarry faces. I’ve been to many geological SSSIs in England and by far the best neighbour for these sites is agriculture, not industry." Please help me to protect Faringdon's unique site of geo and biodiversity by making a donation when the CrowdJustice Appeal goes live on SATURDAY 20th MAY at 9.00am. The case will be heard at the Royal Courts of Justice on 14-15 June. If you wish to donate to Wicklesham Community Fund, please email me at protectwicklesham@gmail.com for details. Thank you again for your kind support!