 | - Can you imagine a further 5500 cars on our roads?
- More junctions /lights/roundabouts onto the site from A415?
- Increased traffic noise and CO2 emissions
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 | - Potential for road flooding
- If nearly 200 hectares are concreted / built over there is a flood risk
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 | - Loss of amenity: rights of way lost and open views of country landscape lost
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 | - Tranquillity of Green Belt Way will be lost. The development borders sections of the Oxford Green Belt Way, a 50 mile walk around Oxford.
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 | - Loss of wildlife habitats and corridors, ecology and Nature
- Loss of ancient hedgerows
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 | - Detrimental effect on a Site of Special Scientific Interest at Culham Brake, home of the rare plant, ‘Summer Snowflake’
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 | - Adverse effect on house prices due to urbanisation
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 | - Oxfordshire’s Premier Motorcross Track will close; another outdoor activity lost.
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 | - Increased waiting times for appointments at local surgeries and NHS hospitals. Even more impossible parking.
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 | - Threat to Grey Herons (Ardea cinerea) nesting in Furze Brake, very close to the proposed development.
- The Grey Herons were filmed by the BBC’s ‘The One Show’ in April 2015 – at the southwest edge of Furze Brake: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02q86cj
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