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Friends
of Warneford Meadow
The Friends of Warneford
Meadow organise fund-raising events for their campaign
(the next one will be on 19 November) and have also
produced their own 'Apple' mugs, as well as Christmas
cards.
For details click
here
New Marston Wildlife Group
Fungi foray - Sunday, 18 October

Ink Cap fungus
For
details (with slideshow) of this event and of other activities of
the Wildlife Group, click
here
Public
Meeting in All Saints Church Hall,
New High Street, Headington on
23 September
The hall was packed for this
meeting, which provided a forum for discussion of the
major concerns local residents have about the impact of
Oxford Brookes University and other large institutions
on local communities.
For notes on the meeting,
click
here.
Oxford
Brookes Gipsy Lane Campus
New Student Centre
Application 09/00695/FUL
Planning consent was refused
at a meeting of the Full Council on 17 September 2009.
For notes on this and on other meetings and articles
relating to this application, click
here.
Government
Consultation on HMOs
(Houses in Multiple Occupation)
Communities Secretary to tighten law
Following notification by another Headington Residents'
Association of the
above-named
consultation (deadline for
comments was 7 August 09), a
letter was sent off on behalf of JSLA, asking
for an amendment of the Use Classes Order
1987,
redefining HMOs and subjecting them to planning
permission. Although this would not affect
houses occupied by fewer than six people, it would, at
least, impose controls on an increase in the density of
the occupation of such houses.
Following this consultation,The Guardian
reported on
11 September that Ministers were preparing
new laws to restrict the 'studentification' of
university towns by a change in the Use Classes Order
referred to above and to cap and control HMOs by means
of the local planning system.
The Guardian
article states:
As
many as 50 community groups in 30 different towns have
been campaigning on the issue
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