PLANNING MATTERS extra
The County Council have engaged Oxford Direct Services (ODS) of the City Council to install a cycle path leading from Cavell Road to Meadow Lane. This is apparently to stop people using their feet or bikes to dig out further the diagonal path which crosses the football pitches. A consultation will apparently take place imminently.
The present proposed design is to open a second exit on Meadow Lane and would entail the felling of a considerable number of trees in the Meadow Lane copse. ODS have marked these with red and white tape
The Committee of the Friends of Iffley Village oppose this proposal and see the destruction of the trees as wholly unnecessary. A cycle path could be installed easily to emerge on to Meadow Lane at the existing exit in the North-West corner of the field: for clarity, this would be parallel to Donnington Bridge Road and exit as now by the little bridge over the Boundary Brook. A second cycle path exit would not then be necessary and the trees could be saved.
Allegedly the Village will be informed very soon by Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford City Council how to make their views known on this matter.
14 March 2022
FOIV Committee