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Radley Lakes decision imminent
8:13pm Sunday 13th January 2008
The fight for the future of Radley Lakes near Abingdon enters another stage tomorrow, with campaigners still calling for Town Green status.
The item is top of the agenda at a meeting of the county council's planning and regulation committee. Members of the Save Radley Lakes campaign plan to demonstrate outside County Hall just before the meeting, where councillors are being recommended by officers to throw out the application.
Campaigners believe Town Green status would save Thrupp Lake from being used as a dump for spent fuel from Didcot power station.
RWE npower says it needs to drain the lake and will be using it for ash until the coal-fired station closes in 2015. Campaigner Marjorie White added: "If councillors haven't walked over the land themselves, then we are saying they should defer a decision until they have done so."
She also said councillors should visit the Trap Grounds in North Oxford, where a successful Town Green application had forced Oxford City Council to abandon plans for housing.
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Lakesaver, says...
11:58pm Sun 13 Jan 08
The Campaign has highlighted exactly how the Council was misled by NPower and proved that they can and have recycled their ash when they had to!!!!
So let us hope that the Planning Committee will vote to give Town Green Status to Radley Lakes and send NPower and their ash packing.
James, says...
8:41am Mon 14 Jan 08
Kim Grenville, Oxford says...
9:01am Mon 14 Jan 08
Donald H, says...
9:28am Mon 14 Jan 08
Nat, Abingdon says...
10:08am Mon 14 Jan 08
Molly Walsh, says...
10:20am Mon 14 Jan 08
The decision made today at County Hall will influence my future voting.
joe, oxford says...
10:44am Mon 14 Jan 08
Molly Walsh wrote:like they care what one vote does.. prehaps they should dump it in your back garden
I hope with all my heart the lakes will be protected. The decision made today at County Hall will influence my future voting.
Mr Ison, England says...
4:22pm Mon 14 Jan 08
Lakesaver, says...
7:45pm Mon 14 Jan 08
The people wanted a Town Green and got an Ash Dump instead - Is this democracy - but the fight goes on - High Court here we come!
Mr Ison, England says...
8:24pm Mon 14 Jan 08
There can be few things the Tories loath more than having their rock removed and the white eyeless worms of their duplicitous corruption revealed to a wider audience.
Sanctioned, W H Smiths says...
10:02pm Mon 14 Jan 08
Donald H wrote:I was wonering why whenever the words; Oxford City Council or Oxford County Concil are mentioned it evokes a vision of brown envelopes being passed under, or sometimes, even over the table.
Rumour has it that WH Smith have run out of brown envelopes.
Good for profits though.
Special offer in February BOGOF.
JIM, ABINGDON says...
12:30am Tue 15 Jan 08
Obs, Manchester says...
9:01am Tue 15 Jan 08
JIM, ABINGDON says...
10:44pm Tue 15 Jan 08
Obs wrote:yes your right,im sorry.
Jim, Abingdon: you obviously are a bear with a very little brain. I pity you.
ricky, oxford says...
5:49am Sat 19 Jan 08
Ricard Barrett, Oxford says...
9:27pm Mon 28 Jan 08
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