UPDATE: January 6th, 2020
Happy New Year All!
Actions
PLEASE sign our new petition here
PLEASE email Grant Shapps MP – to ask him to reconsider and to make time to meet with NEG to discuss his priority pledged review of the Ox-Cam Expressway. Wording and email address to be found here
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What’s new (for full details go to noexpressway.org/news-updates)
Government Expressway Review?
NEG has produced an email for supporters to send Grant Shapps asking him to reconsider and meet NEG
NEG wish to meet with Grant Shapps to discuss his proposed priority review, when it will happen, who will be involved, how will it be managed and most importantly, how will transparency and robustness be maintained
Have you emailed him yet? Every email makes a difference! Email wording & address here
Flooding
There has been substantial flooding in different areas of Ox-Cam Expressway Corridor B. In some areas this impacted so much of the area between corridor boundaries it begs the question – where could a road and all the housing actually fit without being underwater?
NEG has shared images on Facebook of severe flooding around villages in North East Oxon and West Bucks and will publish some drone footage taken on Christmas Eve soon, we’ll also send to Highways England
Areas south of Milton Keyenes have also been affected, as reported in our news feed, with severe flooding in an area already assigned for development of 600 houses
Further areas right along the arc were highlighted on the government flood warning website as at serious risk prior to Christmas. Do you have information/photographs of other areas affected along the corridor that you could send us?
In the Press
No Expressway Group has again featured in the Oxon based press regarding our disappointment with Grant Shapps being “too busy” to meet with NEG to discuss the “priority review” of the Ox-Cam Expressway
The Times reports on the rapid rate of turning “green” Britain into “grey” Britain with increasing building of roads and housing developments. With comments from Danny Dorling on the impact of the Ox-Cam Expressway scheme.
NEG Petition to STOP the Expressway!
If you haven’t already done so, PLEASE sign our petition now! And get everyone you know to sign it too!
Sign up here! Every sign up makes our campaign stronger. Some people are saying they have already signed ‘a petition about the expressway’. This is a new petition on the NEG website (not on change.org or Government website) and will give us the chance to stay in touch with you about petition news and the NEG campaign, if you wish.
Further NEG activities
We continue awareness-raising with more presentations scheduled for the Claydons on 16th Jan, Cranfield 22nd Jan and Dorton 27th Jan. Details of locations and timings can be found here.
What’s next
Driving petition sign ups on site
Working to get meeting with Grant Shapps to discuss the review and NEG’s involvement
Meeting with Highways England to discuss the consultation process - delayed to Jan 21st by HE
Continue working with the Stronger Together group and working on a programme of activities for schools
We urgently need your help.
Your donations are needed now, to help us run the campaign and pay for political consultants and other professional experts to bring this campaign to the attention of Westminster as well as local politicians.
No Expressway Group believes there is no need for an Oxford-Cambridge Expressway, nor the over-inflated housing targets associated with it, and we will actively campaign against it and support other organisations with the same objectives.
Our environment is a national asset which is critical for everyone’s health and well-being. We must not let it be destroyed.
Your donations help us to spread information about the Expressway, run and build support for the campaign:
£10 could pay for one roadside Correx poster
£15 could pay for one roadside poster on a wooden stake
£20 could pay for one A1 printed colour poster for our pagoda display
£35 could pay for 250 A5 printed leaflets for the campaign
£70 could pay for one pole and two panels for our travelling pagoda display
£150 could pay for one feather flag for our travelling pagoda
£180 could pay to run this website for one year
£300 could pay for a 3 minutes of an Expressway Story
£500 could pay for a 5 minutes of an Expressway Story
A greater or other amount could contribute to the cost of professional support for our campaign in general and in preparation for Planning Inspectorate hearings
Please note:
The No Expressway Group has a group bank account to which the Chair, Secretary and Treasurer are signatories. The group will publish accounts on noexpressway.org each year which will be audited by an accountant from outside the NEG group.
If any funds are left at the end of the campaign, these will be donated equally between RSPB and BBOWT.