Both the BBC and Oxford mail have published information on our next appeal! check out the links below to find out more. Bioabundance wants to take South Oxfordshire Local Plan to court of appeal South Oxfordshire 13,500 new homes plan taken to court of appeal
Bioabundance is taking its case to the Court of Appeal!
The Company aims to get the SODC local development plan overturned. Sue Roberts, Chair of Bioabundance says: “This plan is to build four times more homes than can even be filled, according to current trends. Government is selling off the land under our feet to create economic growth in our area. We would have to […]
Leigh Day: Details of Bioabundance Appeal
On Thursday 29 April, lawyers for Bioabundance will attend an oral hearing by video link to assert that our case against the South Oxfordshire Local plan is sufficiently strong that it should be heard in the High Court. See the press release issued by Leigh Day
Hundreds of campaigns across Britain to save countryside
Ros Coward in the Guardian looks at the national scale of environmental protest and cites the National Grassroots Campaign Map. Local groups across the country are battling “against huge unsustainable housing developments engulfing small towns; against the loss of greenbelt or protected wildlife areas; and against hypocritical councils who declare a climate emergency in one […]
Housing Today coverage of our legal appeal
Oxford Mail covers appeal to get court hearing
Lawyers for Bioabundance are seeking an oral hearing to reverse the court’s initial refusal to allow a statutory review of South Oxfordshire’s Local Plan. Read today’s article 6 April 2021 Read article from 3 April 2021
BBC covers our appeal for court hearing
Bioabundance has taken steps to reverse the court’s refusal to accept its challenge of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan. In filing an appeal, Lawyers state that the case is ‘clearly arguable’ and deserves a full hearing. Read the full story
Bioabundance appeals court refusal of Judicial Review
Read the full story in Envirotec Magazine
Bioabundance files appeal to have legal action proceed
Today Bioabundance lodged an appeal with the planning court for it to reconsider its decision (Monday 29 March) to refuse our application for statutory review of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan. This oral hearing will allow lawyers to assert that the claim is clearly arguable and should go ahead. Dr Sue Roberts, director of Bioabundance, […]
The Oxfordshire local connectivity and transport plan
In our submission to the consultation LCTP5 – vision, we highlight the need to prioritise net-zero carbon in transport by 2050 in order to tackle the climate change emergency. Over the next thirty years local authorities have to create a sustainable transport network with links between local e-bus, pedestrian and cycle routes to strategic rail […]