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The Forum is the place for your views on issues that affect Longworth. Right now there's one
major issue that concerns all of us - the proposal by Hanson plc to develop a sandpit in land lying
immediately to the west of Pine Woods Road. As other issues and topics come up, this Forum will expand
to cover them. If you have any input on this subject or suggestions for other Forum topics, please contact us.
Planning Committee meeting delayed again!
The much-delayed Council hearing of Hanson's
application, last scheduled for 20 October 08, has now been delayed yet again, in no small part directly due
to the activities of the LNS Committee members. The earliest hearing date is now 24 November, but this
could easily slip back still further into the New Year: watch this space!
A belated thanks to everyone who supported our campaign by writing objection letters to Oxfordshire County Council in November. Over a hundred individual letters were received, in addition to detailed formal objections presented by both Longworth and Hinton Parish Councils, and by ourselves.
Everyone who wrote or emailed will have received a standard response from OCC, advising that a decision on the application would be made at a Planning and Regulation Committee meeting on 14 January.
So inundated has the officer handling the case been, it appears, and with 'so many loose ends to tie up', that the date of the Committee meeting has been repeatedly put back.
We also understand that at a meeting before Christmas between OCC's transport managers and Hanson's representative, the county raised their own concerns about the traffic aspects of the proposal. Hanson has now responded with amendments to their original application, which we believe to be fairly superficial: apparently these are restricted to two large signs on the eastbound carriageway warning of "Heavy Plant Crossing".
We will need to wait until the Committee meeting (whenever it may take place!) to ascertain OCC's response.
The Land not Sand Committee
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