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Save Warneford Meadow
 Warneford
Meadow, the big area of open green space between Hill Top Road and the
Headington hospitals, faces a critical threat. Under the City Council's
'Draft Local Plan' it would become a 'development site', and half of it
would disappear under concrete to make way for new Brookes University student
accommodation or nurses' housing. Although currently neglected and unmanaged,
the meadow has a high ecological value, with many species of butterfly,
some rare invertebrates, and birds from skylarks to kingfishers all sighted
there recently. It's a vital wild space, part of the threatened 'green
corridor' which links South Park to the Thames via Boundary Brook. It must
not be destroyed!
Warneford Meadow has never been built on, and it must not be built on
now. It has immense amenity value for local residents, some of whom have
been walking their dogs and enjoying the open air there for 70 years. Local
kids fly kites and ride bikes along the rough tracks. Kids need exercise
and the great outdoors. If this meadow disappears, where else can they
go? Concerned residents are organising now to campaign to save the meadow.
Some are going to appear at the Local Plan Inquiry to make the case that
Warneford Meadow should be designated a Nature Conservation Area, not
a 'development site'. Please help and get involved. Unless sufficient people
stand up and be counted, this last green space WILL be destroyed.
Public Meeting - Friday 18 June
7.30pm, Cheney Community Hall, Cheney School, Cheney Lane
Chaired by Radio Oxford's Bill Heine. Speakers include Tony Joyce, Chair
of the Co-ordinating Committee of the Headington Residents Associations,
City Councillors Peter Johnson and Susan Brown, council planning officer,
County Councillor Craig Simmons, environmental author Mark Lynas and others.
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