South Oxfordshire Sustainability

Working for sustainable food, planning, water and waste policies in our area

SOS Meeting – Air Pollution

The next meeting of SOS is on Wednesday, 3rd October and we shall focus on Air Pollution.
 
Caroline Newton, SODC Cabinet Member for the Environment, will be attending. We will discuss how the District Council can work with sustainability groups in the market towns.
Please arrive at 7pm for a 7.15pm start. We follow the meeting with a shared supper, so please bring a plate and a bottle. (NB Personally, I am vegan). The venue is our home: Glebe House, Reading Rd, Wallingford OX10 9DT (directions and parking information).
Here are the minutes from our last meeting (which are quite interesting).
Agenda to follow – nearer the date.

URGENT – PUBLIC MEETING on OXFORDSHIRE PLANNING, 17 MAY

SOS, together with Sustainable  Wallingford and the Need Not Greed campaign, are sponsoring a public meeting in Wallingford Town Hall on Tuesday, 17 May at 7.30. This is part of a wider effort to alert people across the county to the need to respond to current Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) consultations on the SEP REFRESH strategy, which threatens to overwhelm us with 100,00o new homes, 85,000 new jobs – and a new Didcot every two years.
 
if it goes through there will be increased pressure for new housing in many, if not most, of our towns and villages, as well as large scale potential environmental damage and serious potential increases both in air pollution and in greenhouse gas emissions.
 
PLEASE HELP US PUBLICISE – PRINT OUT AND FIND PLACES TO DISPLAY THE ATTACHED POSTER:
 
 
PLEASE COME YOURSELVES. PLEASE RESPOND TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE
 
PLEASE ENCOURAGE  ANYONE ELSE YOU TALK TO DO SO TOO (DEADLINE, 20 MAY)
 

For suggestions on how to respond and further details  please  go to the Need Not Greed website

Solar Roadshow at Wallingford Town Hall

Solar Roadshow at Wallingford Town Hall
Saturday 21st March, 9am to 3pm.
 
If you have ever wanted to know about solar renewables, find out how solar power benefits the environment and your bank balance, or been confused by the technical jargon of RHI, FiT and PV, then this is the event for you.
In April 2014 the Government launched the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme to promote the use of renewable heat. Owners of systems receive payments under the RHI scheme, but, unlike the FiT scheme, payments are compressed into a seven year window, thereby reducing the period over which payback is achieved.

Sims Solar from Wallingford is hosting the Solar Roadshow so that more people will be aware of the different installation schemes. There is no pressure to sign up, just go along and ask questions to find out more about solar renewables. Tea and coffee will be available throughout the event.

Future housing – Wallingford and beyond

Discussion on issues of design and sustainability of Wallingford new housing. Possible discussion also of wider issues of housing numbers in South Oxfordshire.

Public Meeting – Slade End Farm – 550 new homes for Wallingford

Slade End Farm – 550 new homes for Wallingford

(Outline planning application imminent)

Can we make them homes to be proud of?

Come and find out how you can help make sure these new homes in our town are a BEACON NOT A BLIGHT.

– Homes that are good to live in
– A welcome extension to our community
– Imaginative design and layout – not one more “clone town” estate
– Energy efficient buildings
– Showcasing the best of tomorrow’s homes
– Low environmental impact

SPEAKERS
Elizabeth Gillespie – SODC Planning Committee
Paul Black – Derwenthorpe Eco-Development, York
Opinder Liddar – Green Architect, Wallingford
Chair: John Gordon, Sustainable Wallingford

District and town councillors invited