Have Your Say
Our councillors and Members of Parliament have a duty to represent our opinions to Government. Find out the 5 most effective ways to have your say.
Spread The Word
Please spread our messages on social media. There are plenty of ways to offer your time and support.
Donate
Printing leaflets and posters, putting the word out on social media and organising our campaign has a cost. Your kind donations help us to keep the campaign running.
Have Your Say
1. Stay in touch
By signing up to news and updates you are joining all the people who oppose the overdevelopment of the Ox-Cam Arc. You’ll receive regular information on what you can do to make your voice heard. The more people that sign up, the stronger our campaign.
2. Register to learn about Ox-Cam Arc developments
The Government has worked on all Ox-Cam Arc plans to date behind a wall of almost total secrecy, with only a very limited number of agencies hearing about the details. Occasionally one or other agency offers a public engagement exercise. An Ox-Cam Arc webpage allows the public to sign up to receive update (scroll down to the bottom of the page). Please do this NOW, because this is currently the ONLY avenue by which you can hear of Ox-Cam Arc developments directly from the Government. You’ll notice that the webpage talks about working ‘alongside local partners’. The latter turn out to be Local Authorities. So much for democracy!
3. Write to the key parliamentary ministers
It really isn’t clear at the moment to whom you should write about all these plans involving numerous ministries. The best approach at the moment is to write to your local MP in the first instance.
Express your objection to:
The lack of public consultation and visibility.
The lack of a Strategic Environmental Assessment.
The over-inflated housing targets for the area (without consideration of whether they are in the right location, at the right price).
The ongoing threat of environmental disaster.
Find your own MP here.
4. Write to the Future Oxfordshire Partnership
The Future Oxfordshire Partnership is a committee that develops and facilitates plans for ‘long-term sustainable development’ in Oxfordshire. The committee is made up of the six councils of Oxfordshire and supporting partners.
The Future Oxfordshire Partnership’s website provides more information about its goals and members.
5. Write to your local councillors
Voice your objections and ask them how they plan to reflect the views of their local constituents. Click on the logo for your local council to find out who to get in touch with.
Spread the Word
Below are some of the signs we prepared when we were campaigning to stop the Expressway. The Expressway is now cancelled but the messages to save our Green Belt or to protect our countryside remain exactly the same. Please do use or modify them for our continuing campaign!
Print off leaflets and hand them out
Click the button below to open up the latest leaflet file and print it out.
Buy a sign for your garden or parish
You’ve seen the signs… Click the button below to request some of your own for your garden or parish.
Print out a poster
Click the button below to browse the latest poster files. Print them out and put up them up wherever you can.
Invite us to your fete or Parish Council meeting
Spreading the word about the Ox-Cam Arc plans and what everyone can do to stop them, our pagoda loved to travel to local fetes and events before Covid-19 struck. We’ll be dusting off the pagoda when circumstances allow. In the meantime, we are holding webinars by Zoom. Why not invite us to Zoom-talk with your community?
Spread the word on social media
Twitter: @no_expressway, @stopthearc #stopthearc
Volunteer your skills and expertise
We’re looking for social media experts, marketing whizzes, economists, PR gurus and anyone with the time and inclination to help us to stop the excesses of the Ox-Cam Arc plans.
Donate
We urgently need your help…
…because our campaign is run entirely by unpaid volunteers. Running it, however, is not cost free. Our website and MailChimp email services must be paid for, as well as Facebook campaign ‘adverts’. Occasionally, we need to pay for professional help, too, to bring this campaign to a much wider audience, including the Westminster Government and local politicians. In future we may also need to pay for professional advice for any Planning Inspectorate processes in which we need to get involved.
Please do consider making a small monthly donation if you can. The Donation Form makes it very easy!
If you are able to donate time, skills or services instead, please contact us.
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Become a Member
You can become a lifetime member of Stop the Arc for a minimum donation of £1.
As a member, you’ll receive special newsletters and invitations to talks and Q&A sessions. You will also be able to vote for Stop the Arc board members and for campaign policies during our Annual General Meetings.
To get started, click the Become a Member button below:
Looking after your money and the environment
The Stop the Arc Group has a group bank account (registered under our original No Expressway Group name) to which the Chair, Secretary and Treasurer are signatories. The group will publish accounts each year which will be audited by an accountant from outside the campaign group.
If any funds are left at the end of the campaign, they will be distributed equally to environmental and countryside registered charities that support our stance on the Ox-Cam Arc.