You’re used to seeing regular campaign updates, but it doesn’t mean things will carry on that way – for six months, six weeks or EVEN SIX DAYS! NOW is the time to PUT WICKLESHAM QUARRY FIRST! We must form FRIENDS OF WICKLESHAM QUARRY in order to carry on.
Come to the first meeting of FRIENDS of WICKLESHAM QUARRY on Sunday 10 May at 7.00pm at Little Coxwell Village Hall.
YOUR QUARRY NEEDS YOU- and it’s THE ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD!
An application for 2,500 HOUSES ON THE REST OF WICKLESHAM FARM is waiting in the wings- and if planning permission is granted for a huge development ON TOP OF Wicklesham Quarry SSSI – 2,500 HOUSES are NEXT ON THE LIST OF THESE PREDATORY DEVELOPERS.
2,500 HOUSES WOULD DOUBLE THE SIZE OF FARINGDON SOUTH OF THE A420, and DESTROY A LARGE PART OF THE MIDVALE RIDGE. DON’T LET IT HAPPEN! (See the link below for details)
UNLESS WE WORK TOGETHER NOW our campaign will be forced to end. We have worked TOO HARD and achieved TOO MUCH to let that happen! PLEASE DON’T LOSE FOCUS NOW! NO ONE ELSE IS GOING TO STEP UP IN YOUR PLACE!
The fight to Protect Wicklesham Quarry from Development has been going on for twelve years (with a 5 year break in the middle). We MUST come together as a group NOW -It is the critical moment of the whole campaign.
TIMING IS EVERYTHING!
If we FAIL TO ACT and seize the moment, our collective efforts over the past 12 years will have been wasted.
LOOK WHAT WE’VE ACHIEVED!
Our High Court action in 2017 resulted in a ruling AGAINST Faringdon neighbourhood plan policy 4.5B. The Court ruled that the policy was ‘UNARGUABLY IN CONFLICT’ with Local Plan policies and was in breach of:
‘Paragraph 8(2)(e) of Schedule 4B to the 1990 Act that the making of the plan was in general conformity with the strategic policies contained in the development plan.’
In other words – IT FAILED TO MEET THE BASIC CONDITIONS, and the High Court ruled AGAINST the District Council on the ground.
Oxfordshire County Council Planning Committee’s Resolution to Approve on 19 January was based on a flawed Report: missing planning history, an inaccurate account of the Judicial Review, flawed application of the development plan, withholding of Natural England’s advice and of objections by the Geological Society and the Paleontological Association, failure to take account of harmful impacts on the Midvale Ridge, and NO MANDATORY ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTS.
A detailed list of objections, which amount to serious legal flaws - can be found at the end of this update: https://www.change.org/p/the-vale-of-white-horse-district-council-and-secretary-of-state-michael-gove-protect-wicklesham-quarry-from-development/u/34427860
THE CAMPAIGN CANNOT PROCEED UNLESS WE ACT TOGETHER as FRIENDS OF WICKLESHAM QUARRY. PLEASE SHOW UP ON SUNDAY 10 MAY AT 7.00PM AT LITTLE COXWELL VILLAGE HALL.
THE FUTURE OF FARINGDON, THE MIDVALE RIDGE AND OF WICKLESHAM QUARRY- ONE OF THE UK’S MOST UNIQUE AND IMPORTANT SITES OF SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC INTEREST – IS DEPENDING ON US! PLEASE SHOW UP AND SUPPORT FoWQ!
https://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/01/JLP-Reg-18-Part-1-Responses-H.pdf pp.242- 403 (Proposal for 2,500 houses)