James Webster’s Weblog

Dear Sir,

I’d like to register my opposition to the planned Cogges Link Road. In my view the road will serious impact the beautiful public park which I enjoy running through and visiting with my two young children.

The park land is part of the Windrush floodplain which if reduced further will only exacerbate future flooding. It appears to me that the link road will simply move the traffic bottleneck and won’t reduce traffic congestion. Expanding the A40 junction at the top of Oxford Hill would achieve the same objective as the link road but with a greatly reduced impact. In the past promises have been made (regarding Mill St, Marriots Close) to replace lost park land with alternative land. In neither case the promise has been kept.

I have a beautiful photo of my son sitting in the long grass surrounded by daisies and buttercups. I’d like that photo to represent a place we can continue to enjoy and not become just a memory.

yours faithfully
James Webster

I hope we’ll see a decent level of oppostion. People are starting to get organised: http://witneyfirst.com
, and on facebook.