green belt

Response on Green Belt release

Letter to the 'Sunday Times'

10 September 2014

Eleanor Mills threw a welcome spotlight on the ideas which deservedly won URBED the 2014 Wolfson Economics Prize (News Review 7th September), but I feel I must pick her up on one point. Oxford Civic Society has been arguing for properly-coordinated, consistent and integrated planning and transport policy, not "green-belt release".

Reviewing the Green Belt – disaster or distraction

The debate about the Green Belt is distracting us from the real issues.

22 July 2014

Many of us involved in planning issues believe that we are in something of a Titanic situation in Oxfordshire. The course we have been following for the past few decades is heading for a number of environmental icebergs. These include energy availability and cost, climate change, air pollution, health issues, traffic congestion, social inequality and despoliation of the landscape we hold so dear. To confine the debate to the arrangement of the deck chairs when what is desperately needed is a change of course, seems naive and complacent.