ACT NOW

REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED - WHAT NEXT?

Huge thanks to the many hundreds of you who have registered as Interested Parties and sent your comments in to the Inspectorate. A few people reported problems in the final days - we can only assume this was because so many were being sent at that time! - but hope you persevered and were successful. Please let us know if you were not able to register.

The Inspectorate will now examine what has been submitted and set the timetable for the examination itself. We will keep you informed as soon as dates and details are published. All the Relevant Registrations will also be published in due course. As an Interested Party you will be invited to the Preliminary Meeting - likely to be in May.

We are confident that there have been a great number of registrations and are now asking for an equally impressive response to our next request - read on!

COMPLETE THE SURVEYS and SEND YOUR PHOTOS

We are now gathering and preparing evidence which will be used to show how this proposal, if built, would affect local residents’ amenity and quality of life. This information will submitted by SBW to the Inspectorate and also to West Oxfordshire District Council to use in their Local Impact Report - an important element at the Examination stage.

We are asking for your help in two important ways:

1. Please complete TWO surveys here

Firstly on the impact on your “lived experience” (Residential Amenity) and
Secondly on your use of the Public Rights of Way (PROW) in the area.

We hope that every one of you will do this - all individuals in your household, local friends and neighbours, visiting friends or family.

2. Please send in photos or videos showing the proximity of solar panels to your house (if you live close to the boundary) or to any PROW that you use in the area. Please identify the

location and email them to feedback@stopbotleywest.com

See below for some good examples of what we are looking for. (Note property in foreground of photos which shows the proximity of fields where panels are planned).

WRITE TO YOUR MP

General feedback to your Members of Parliament

Those living in the new Bicester & Woodstock constituency:

Please write to your new MP, Calum Miller expressing all your concerns about the BWSF proposals and calling on him to work on our behalf to fight PVDP’s application. Email: calum.miller@oxonlibdems.uk

Those living in the Oxford West & Abingdon constituency:

Please write to your re-elected MP, Layla Moran reminding her of your concerns about BWSF especially in relation to the possible links to Russian money and concern about the individuals behind PVDP and calling on her to work on our behalf to fight PVDP’s application. layla.moran.mp@parliament.uk

Addresses for Letters

The Planning Inspectorate botleywestsolar@planninginspectorate.gov.uk
Your MP calum.miller@oxonlibdems.uk // layla.moran.mp@parliament.uk
Oxfordshire County Council: Cllr Liz Leffman (Leader) liz.leffman@oxfordshire.gov.uk // Cllr Andrew Gant (Transport) andrew.gant@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Leader of WODC andy.graham@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Principal Planning Officer WODC andrew.thomson@westoxon.gov.uk
Leader of Vale of White Horse DC Bethia.Thomas@whitehorsedc.gov.uk
Leader of Cherwell DC david.hingley@cherwell-dc.gov.uk
Find Other District Councillors here https://www.gov.uk/find-your-localcouncillors
Find Your Parish Council here
Oxford Times/News Quest letters@oxfordtimes.co.uk or Miranda.Norris@newsquest.co.uk
Newspapers - Contact details available on newspapers’ own websites

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) are doing a cracking job of raising awareness, gathering support and influencing MPs and the Government to legislate for rooftop solar rather than huge ground based projects. They are extremely supportive of SBW, supplying terrific help and using their nationwide network to help our cause too. We are therefore very keen that our supporters should be their supporters too!

Here are some ways you can help:

Join their rooftop solar campaign and sign the petition here
Respond to the Government consultation on rooftop solar legislation via their website here
Visit the local CPRE Oxfordshire website to find out more about their excellent work in the area and their views on the Botley West proposals here

what you can do right now

REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED - WHAT NEXT?

COMPLETE THE SURVEYS and SEND YOUR PHOTOS

MAPS

WRITE TO YOUR MP

Addresses for Letters

SUPPORT THE STOP BOTLEY WEST CAMPAIGN BY MAKING A DONATION

what you can do right now

REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED - WHAT NEXT?

COMPLETE THE SURVEYS and SEND YOUR PHOTOS

MAPS

WRITE TO YOUR MP

Addresses for Letters

SUPPORT THE STOP BOTLEY WEST CAMPAIGN BY MAKING A DONATION

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