Save Bayswater Brook Countryside

an umbrella group bringing together communities Saving oxford’s greenbelt from development also known as Land North of Bayswater Brook

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

How can we best spend £22 billion to get the biggest climate bang for our buck and really kickstart our 'green revolution'?

I know, let's invest it in one of the 'climate solutions' with lowest potential and highest costs

[Bat Conservation Trust @_BCT_]

We have an excellent advice section on our website that answers your questions and concerns about bats and give you advice on what to do if you found a bat that needs help, information about bat boxes, everything you need to know about having a bat roost: https://t.co/fEEaXmmMnA

[Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈 @Kate_Bradbury]

Imagine if they spent £22 billion on restoring peat bogs, the oceans, forests (proven carbon capture), or on public transport, insulation, solar – literally anything but this, which is just playing into the hands of the fossil fuel bros and delaying the transition to green energy

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Canadians using the example of Thatcher privatising water as a reason to not privatise their water industry - we're a world beating case study 🤷‍♂️

Steve Paikin, "40 years ago.. Margaret Thatcher privatised water.. Would you privatise water in Ontario?"

Michele Grenier, "With the experience in the UK, a lot of people are reluctant to go down that road"

Steve Paikin, "Has the city of Hamilton thought of privatising water services?"

Nick Winters, "We contracted operations and learned a hard lesson about there not being value in that model.. Private entities looking to derive a profit may not look at the infrastructure as municipal operations.. They should remain owned by public entities in a not for profit manner"

Barbara Robinson, "When a third party was operating our sewers, the region was hands off.. Didn't pay attention.. Somebody else is operating it.. Not worried about leaks.. The private company didn't put any investment in to improving the sewers.. That's dangerous because sewers leak"

Steve Paikin, "At the end of the day if something goes wrong, people don't approach the private companies they approach their politicians.. So they're accountable at the end of the day anyway"

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tax Evasion is 360x Benefit Fraud.

[Headington Heritage @headingheritage]

Psst.. DON'T tell Whitehall that Oxford:

Is very constrained, little green space
Flood prone
Has no upgraded sewage treatment for some years
Has traffic problems

Expecting a 38% inc in housing 762/1051 is just daft?

JUST time to respond 23:45 tonight:

https://t.co/8XR5bTQJ0z

[Headington News @HeadingtonNews]

South Oxfordshire District Council is scheduled to come to a decision on Christ Church's plan to develop the land north of Bayswater Brook on 9 October 2024. This petition calls on SODC to refuse permission: https://t.co/3FOwKpKoxU

[Judy Webb @judyweb32049878]

A beautiful set of photos of one of my favourite flowers. Beautiful & critically important for many species of #flies,#beetles,#wasps, #bees,#butterflies, #moths...as it produces nectar at an astonishing rate. Sugar needed to power insect life
cycles & pollen needed by many

[Save Bayswater Brook Countryside @bayswaterbrook]

Free showing of this amazing film- Friday , all welcome. Risinghurst Community Centre

[Save Bayswater Brook Countryside @bayswaterbrook]

This is the countryside we’re trying to protect from greedy over developers Christ church

Please sign our petition

https://t.co/wZtwk35drJ

[Save Bayswater Brook Countryside @bayswaterbrook]

@HeadingtonNews @headingheritage @redmikerowley @TheOxfordMail @BBCOxford @friendlyevalley @BBOWT @Naturehood_Ox @OxfordPresTrust @bioabundance

[Save Bayswater Brook Countryside @bayswaterbrook]

Please sign our petition to South Oxfordshire District Council- asking them to listen to the Environment Agency and reject the Christ church planning application for Land North of Bayswater Brook (next to Barton)

https://t.co/dBURApCfKk

[Save Bayswater Brook Countryside @bayswaterbrook]

Please sign our petition to South Oxfordshire District Council- asking them to listen to the Environment Agency and reject the Christ church planning application for Land North of Bayswater Brook (next to Barton)

https://t.co/dBURApCfKk

[Save Bayswater Brook Countryside @bayswaterbrook]

Please sign our petition to South Oxfordshire District Council- asking them to listen to the Environment Agency and reject the Christ church planning application for Land North of Bayswater Brook (next to Barton)

https://t.co/dBURApCfKk

[Headington Heritage @headingheritage]

@HeadingtonNews This is part of the STRAT13 development - poor Barton:

https://t.co/3LCkJnbSYV

[Headington Heritage @headingheritage]

Thames Water pollutes our Thames through massive underinvestment and seems to have given so much to its owners it may go bankrupt
Good riddance. Take back these public assets at least for now

[Save Bayswater Brook Countryside @bayswaterbrook]

Flock of around 200 fieldfare on the farmland between Sandhills and Forest Hill last week stripping berries in hedgerows there!

[Friends of Lye Valley @friendlyevalley]

We've got a fabulous crop of Hawthorn berries in the Valley again this year. All we need now are some Redwing or Fieldfare to come along and eat them!
#autumn #birds #OX3

[Headington News @HeadingtonNews]

The “Beautiful Barton” Facebook group has worrying images of the flooding there last night, with sandbags against doors at the bottom of Barton Village Road. It can only get worse if Christ Church builds on the north side of the brook

[Save Bayswater Brook Countryside @bayswaterbrook]

Barton flooded again! And yet Christ Church college want to build on the other side of the valley @SouthOxon please stop this development to save existing homes in Barton.
@LibDemSODC @redmikerowley @HeadingtonNews

https://t.co/gNbOl0OW7M

[Headington News @HeadingtonNews]

Historic England has opposed Christ Church’s plan to move a 1684 listed boundary stone by the Bayswater Brook to make way for a bus road. Scroll down to the Consultation/Notification section and click the relevant folder to see what they said https://t.co/q1tcduZ8O6