Topic: email campaign to save our lotties

[westsussexlottie]

if you do have historic hedges and history  - try:

How do I get a building listed?
 
Anyone can apply for a building to be listed. To have a building considered, write to English Heritage at:
 
Heritage Protection Operations Department
English Heritage
Room 202
23 Savile Row
London
W1S 2ET
 
The application should be supported by as much information as possible, including:
Address of the building
Reasons why you believe it may merit listing
Clear original external and internal photographs
Name and contact details of the owner
Location map
The more information that is supplied, the quicker a listing application can be dealt with.

Another tack might be to get Tree Preservation Orders on all the site hedges and any large or rare trees on the site - contact the local conservation officer to ask for a map of the TPOs on your site and suggest tohim that the hedges etc should be covered under TPOs. At the very least this could HINDER development... don't make it easy for them!
 

[Robert_Brenchley]

Our site was listed without buildings, but with hedges. It's worth a try.

[fat larry]

A brief update: We all got off at the end of August to prevent the threat of court action from the diocese of Oxford (bless 'em).
the church put in a planning application for outline B1 use in August and objections need to be in by September 15. You can read the more or less latest at www.savetheplot.co.uk

I'd just like to thank everyone on this forum for all their words of support and wisdom, we've done our best and if the bishop of oxford can't see that this whole scheme is a bit lacking in Christianity then I despair.

[kitty]

and if the bishop of oxford can't see that this whole scheme is a bit lacking in Christianity then I despair.

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i always find the people with the most scruples and humanity are the ones who dont need a title... ::)

well done to you and merlinsmum and the rest of your team who'fought the good fight'...shame about the outcome but i think you all took it to the wire......

time to dig another lottie...
luv
kitty :)

[Merlins Mum]

I've recently opposed a plan by the Diocese of Derby to flog off a massive farmer's field for building houses.  It got rejected but we have to keep our eye on the ball or they'll be back when we're not looking

Don't you turn your back on them Wardy, they're all devious b**st**ds!

And where will our veg and fruit come  from? Oh we'll get all the rubbish that the rest of Europe doesn't want.
It makes me so angry  >:( It's started all ready.  Did you see 'dispatches' a few weeks ago?  When did any of us say we don't care about the taste of our food just so long as our green beans are straight and a certain length, and our tomatoes and apples are pretty, bet none of you did!

Hey thanks kitty but FL did most of the work, I was just pleased to be able to lend a hand. :)

[Robert_Brenchley]

This government seems intent on covering our green and pleasant land with concrete.  Where will our food come from when everything is under housing?  In these uncertain times it seems madness to me to build, build, build without considering reusing buildings and removing slum housing etc.  We have loads of derelict properties which could be demolished and new properties built on the same site but that doesn't occur to our planners.

Many of the derelict properties would probably be quite economical to refurbish if someone would make the effort. I think one of the biggest mistakes we ever made was to demilish so much 'slum' housing and replace it with tower blocks and the like. I'm not sure the lesson has really been learnt yet.

[Merlins Mum]

Do we ever RB  ::)
MM

[fat larry]

Merlins mum was - and is - the staunchest ally anyone could ever hope to have. Who wrote to the Archbishop and Charlie after all. And them forwarding their letters to theBishop of Oxford provided us with the most fulsome correspondence we've ever managed from the diocese. And she did/does so much more too.

The war isn't over yet. I just wish the Bishop Of Oxford would take a long look at what is being done in his name.

At the very least it is cherry picking of local plans created by the council so their 'precious' speculative development can go ahead, combined with disingenouus (someone else explain that, and spell it correctly :) reasons why development should go ahead, not to mention their false claim that statutory allotments should have running water... er, this isn't a statutory allotment. statutory allotments don't need to have running water, and how come you presumably will be willing to provide running water for an office development but are unable to provide for a lossmaking allotment site. Face facts, the allotments have always been loss making. but you are a church, supposed to support the community (hello vicar).
For whatever reason you aren't doing that anymore... please come clean and explain that you are not a community asset and are JUST a dodgy business. I'd expect this kind of bull**** from a dodgy speculative developer, but not from the Right Reverend Richard Harries, user of a hybrid car, and champion (allegedly) of the environment.
Come on Bishop, get with the programme.
I always thought he was a good guy, but this whole scenario makes me wonder.

[fat larry]

ps. the website is frozen, apparently cos so many people are reading it (i think it is u lot, thanks) !! thanks. Plan to get it sorted this week thanks to a very good friend of mine, Khalid, who owns a very good mac specialist company in Oxford – Oxford Macs.

[Merlins Mum]

Merlins mum was - and is - the staunchest ally anyone could ever hope to have.

Thanks fl, guess we haven't made a bad team, and I must say there was the odd occasion when it felt like just the two of us.

As to the rest of fl's comment - he has a great knack for telling it how it is. 
MM

[kitty]

yes mm..but i wish fl'd  stop shillyshallying and get off the fence-tell us how you really feel fl! ;D ;D ;D

merlins mum is a great mate too!-she has a cape and wears her...ahem.. lower undergarments on the ouside of her tights..a regular superheroe in my book! ;) ;D

i think you both have done marvellously..i know just how difficult it is to sway large corporations-i started a farmers market a few years ago(o stop blowing yer own trumpet kitty)and the aggra-bloomin-vation from the county council was unbelievable-you'd think they didnt want any thing that might become an asset in the city-won in the end but it don't half colour your perception of people in the end.....s'why i'm a cynical ol'kitty these days..and the church is THE worst for dog in the manger,slfish greed..
kitty dismounts high horse.....
anyway-i think you deserve bloomin big medals both of you! :-*
p.s-theres an article in the october kitchen garden about allotments being bought and sold..

[Merlins Mum]

merlins mum is a great mate too!-she has a cape and wears her...ahem.. lower undergarments on the ouside of her tights..a regular superheroe in my book! ;) ;D

Oh kitty, now everyone knows, it was supposed to be a secret, tut.  ;)

[kitty]

weeeeell..there has been talk of seeing a u.f.o.over oxfordshire..... ;)

[Merlins Mum]

 ;D ;D ;D