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Outrage Campaign against Gravel Extraction: Abolition of Regional Spatial Strategies
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The Stonehenge Farm Quarry Application. Wednesday, July 7, 2010. Abolition of Regional Spatial Strategies. Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has issued a statement. To the effect that the Regional Spatial Strategies have been revoked. The last words spoken by Robert Hanson for OCC at the Public Inquiry confirmed, in answer to a direct question from the Inspector, that OCC's preferred sub-apportionment figure remains 1.58 mtpa or less. It appears that the Government in...
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Outrage Campaign against Gravel Extraction: Mineral landbanks and Localism
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The Stonehenge Farm Quarry Application. Wednesday, July 14, 2010. Mineral landbanks and Localism. Oxfordshire has the misfortune to possess large deposits of sand and gravel. Because the supply of sand and gravel is important to the construction industry, there are national policies to ensure that supplies are available. So decisions about gravel extraction here in Oxfordshire have always reflected national and regional guidelines and policies. And put forward their own figure: 1.58 mtpa or less....In ad...
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Outrage Campaign against Gravel Extraction: OCC Preferred Minerals Strategy
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The Stonehenge Farm Quarry Application. Friday, October 22, 2010. OCC Preferred Minerals Strategy. The OCC Cabinet Meeting of 19 October 2010. Considered as agenda item 7 a preferred spatial strategy for mineral working as part of the new Minerals and Waste Development Framework. For Sand and Gravel they decided to continue to concentrate extraction in the existing working areas - in effect the old Strategic Resource Areas that have plagued us for the last 60 years. The arguments in favour of SRAs are sk...
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Outrage Campaign against Gravel Extraction: Oxfordshire does choose
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The Stonehenge Farm Quarry Application. Friday, July 23, 2010. Councillor Ian Hudspeth, Oxfordshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Growth and Infrastructure, has written to the Minister for Decentralisation, the Rt Hon Greg Clark MP. The letter is dated 9 July 2010, and it is available on the OCC website. In other words Oxfordshire takes the Government's 'localism' at face value, and does choose to set its own figure. The Stonehenge Farm blog. OCC Planning 24 Nov 2008. OCC Planning: 19 May 2008.
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Outrage Campaign against Gravel Extraction: The Public Inquiry resumes
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The Stonehenge Farm Quarry Application. Tuesday, June 22, 2010. The Public Inquiry resumes. On Tuesday 29 June 2010. At 10am the Public Inquiry resumes for 4 days in Northmoor Village Hal. L Now OUTRAGE and the Residents of Moreton can put their case and explain why Stonehenge Farm is the wrong place for a gravel pit. During April Hanson's people presented their case in all its excruciating detail, as time and money slipped by. What has happened since then? The Stonehenge Farm blog. The Family Fundraisin...
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Outrage Campaign against Gravel Extraction: A bad decision
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The Stonehenge Farm Quarry Application. Wednesday, October 13, 2010. The Inspector heard the evidence, and asked for more. Since July we have written three further submissions about the effect the abolition of the South East Plan has had on the case we presented at the Public Inquiry. The first gave our view of the matter, and then there were two responses to what the appellants had said. By searching with the reference number 2107573. That reed beds can be developed when their design and layout goes aga...
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Outrage Campaign against Gravel Extraction: The Public Inquiry has closed
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The Stonehenge Farm Quarry Application. Saturday, July 3, 2010. The Public Inquiry has closed. At about 6:45pm on Friday 2 July 2010 the Public Inquiry finished in a flurry of detail and drafting - planning conditions that will be needed if the Inspector decides to allow the Appeal. This was an unpleasant experience - rather like designing the car park and fire drill arrangements for use at one's own cremation. Our initial contact came through the Environmental Law Foundation. But we still need any help ...
