Here are the EPIC submissions to the Inspector's latest questions - download the PDFs below.
On the Eynsham-Woodstock Area (West Oxfordshire Garden Village SDA): this is not a ‘Garden Village’; a northern extension to Eynsham is not needed to answer Oxford’s needs; the choice of site was not based on robust evidence and rigorous research; it will severely damage landscape, habitats and biodiversity; and it does not look like the only, or best, option.
On the 5-year supply of deliverable housing land: we question the population projections, the type of housing provision and the reliance on large, strategic sites; we flag up the inadequacy of infrastructure and transport provision; and we highlight the lack of consultation - especially for the Garden Village - asking:
‘... whether such major development decisions, with such an enormous impact locally, were appropriate, feasible or necessary’.