We live in the charming lace network of streets of Osney and the neighbouring North Hinksey across the willows and millennial old flood meadows which ‘planners’ wish to separate with a 60 metre wide channel, spanned at Willow Walk by a vast bridge. The scheme, which involves the felling of thousands of trees, recalls the worst of the ‘function over form’ mindset of brutalist modern architecture, in an unproven effort to address floods which may not even work.
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Logs in Bulstake and Seacourt streams
14/08/2019
On May 6, trees were pollarded on the bank of the Bulstake stream where it flows by the New Botley Recreation Ground which borders on Ferry Hinksey Road. These logs in picture 1 were photographed in…
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25 min film about a better approach to Flood Alleviation in Oxford
07/08/2019
Tom Ballance, former manager of Bossoms' Boatyard, made this 25 minute amateur film in 2014. Though dated, it shows how neglect of proper care for the banks, streams and culverts has contributed to…
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133 acres
This expensive scheme will ruin 133 acres of Greenbelt
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4000 Trees
Up to 4000 trees removed, a fact hidden by the reference in the proposal
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40,000 trucks
500,000 tons of sand and gravel at 25 tons per journey along the single track entry point
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“That the Secretary of State for the Environment require the Environment Agency to carry out a pilot scheme to dredge the watercourses in West Oxford before giving any permission for the overengineered Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme”
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