If you think it’s too late to bother with a Neighbourhood Plan because the recent appeals have been granted the only thing we can say is – take a look at the map below!
While many Bloxham residents have been making the the mistake of looking for common sense, logic and rationality in the recent ‘Pickles decisions’ Cherwell District Council has been busy putting together the updated Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment or SHLAA. This shows land around Bloxham that landowners have indicated they would be willing to consider for development.
The driving force behind all this is, of course, money. The money to be made when agricultural land at around £10,000 acre becomes development land offering a windfall of £1.3 million pounds per acre.
Here is the map of the fields CDC have down to consider for further development. The yellow fields are ones that could become housing estates if we don’t keep going on the Plan.
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Hmmmm I’d like to know where the access would be for plots BL001 and BL002 as they appear to be in the middle of the fields behind our close!!!
Wonder what they would pay us to knock our houses down to build the access road???
Better still I wonder where the heli pad would go to helicopter the residents in as this appears to be the only way they’d get to their houses!!!