Save the fields in Iffley Village for Community and Nature

Save the fields in Iffley Village for Community and Nature

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8 July 2021
Signatures: 60,618Next Goal: 75,000
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Started by Evelyn Sanderson

Ask Oxford City Council to think again about its plans to spend £4.5 million building houses on an ancient wildflower meadow in the heart of the Iffley Village Conservation Area and support a better alternative for community and nature. 

This special field is not a good place for housing: 2.5 acres of wildflower meadow, on the edge of the Thames floodplain, bordered by narrow lanes which are designated a principle quiet route for active travel used by up to 900 people/day, in a rural conservation area, more important for people and nature than ever! 

Help to save Luna the rare white badger who lives here and view the film about her by the folk singer Peggy Seeger. 

Most of the housing will be very expensive with only 12 of the 30 homes planned to be for social rents, it will not make any impact on Oxford's housing crisis.

There are better places to build the homes Oxford needs: just 200m away in Iffley Village there is another site where 84 homes are planned. The Oxford Local Plan has reserved 430 acres of land in the city for businesses. Now post COVID some of this land should be regenerated for new homes. 

Iffley Community Fields

We ask Oxford City Council to support the Iffley Community Fields project to work with the local people to open up the fields as a resource for community and nature to: 

  • Promote links in the wider community
  • Provide educational opportunities
  • Improve mental health and wellbeing
  • Care for our wildflower meadow habitat for future
    generations
  • Keep the special rural character of Iffley Village
    Conservation Area

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You can also give us your views by completing our online ‘vision’ questionnaire, here:

iffleywoods.org/vision/
www.iffleywoods.org/vision 

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