Dear Wicklesham Supporters,

Please copy this letter (below) and send to Adrian Duffield, Head of Planning, Vale of White Horse District Council: adrian.duffield@southandvale.gov.uk and Rachel Wileman, Director of Planning at Oxfordshire County Council: rachel.wileman@oxfordshire.gov.uk.  And CC to District and County Councillors:

Bethia.Thomas@whitehorsedc.gov.uk
lucy.edwards@whitehorsedc.gov.uk
katherine.foxhall@whitehorsedc.gov.uk
viral.patel@whitehorsedc.gov.uk
mark.coleman@whitehorsedc.gov.uk
sue.caul@whitehorsedc.gov.uk

liz.leffman@oxfordshire.gov.uk                              pete.sudbury@oxfordshire.gov.uk                                                                    yvonne.constance@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Mr Adrian Duffield, Head of Planning, Vale of White Horse District Council, Abbey House, Abbey Close, Abingdon OX14 3JE

CC.  Rachel Wileman, Director of Planning, Environment and Climate Change, Oxfordshire County Council, County Hall, New Road, Oxford OX1 1ND                                                                                       

 Dear Mr Duffield,

Application MW.0151/23- Oxfordshire County Council. Re.  Wicklesham Quarry SSSI, Faringdon

The above application for a major industrial infrastructure development at Wicklesham Quarry SSSI, Faringdon, has been submitted to Oxfordshire County Council. Your department carried out three weeks of a public planning consultation for this proposal in July 2023, before withdrawing the application. Members of the public had already submitted more than eighty comments.

In the interests of openness and accountability, I wish to request that all these comments now be passed to Oxfordshire County Council for inclusion in the consultation that has opened on the same proposal.  Failure to include these responses in the current consultation would represent a breach of the rights of all those who took part, who expected their views to count.

You have contact details for all those who took part, and should you consider it necessary, it would be a straightforward matter to contact everyone and ask whether they would like their earlier comments to be included.

I note, yet again, that people in Faringdon have received no notification of this proposal for a major development on their doorstep, and the developer has failed to consult local people. It seems clear that there is a general unwillingness to invite local consultation or take it seriously, since people can only express views on what they aware of.  I trust that both the Vale District Council and Oxfordshire County Council will recognize their shared responsibilities in this matter.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

your name

URGENT! Meeting for local supporters at Little Coxwell Village Hall, 7.00pm on 15th November! If you can spare an hour or two over the next week or so, please come along. Wicklesham Quarry needs your help!

If you can't make it on Wednesday but want to help, please drop me an email: protectwicklesham@gmail.com