As well as being part of the historic Kidlington Gap which maintains the separation between Oxford and Kidlington, the 113 year old North Oxford Golf Course is a green lung in an increasingly urban area.  It acts as a buffer to the noise and pollution of the A34 and provides habitat for a wide variety of fauna and flora.

Pictured above are just some of the hundreds of mature trees that will be destroyed if Oxford University's plans to develop the golf course are approved.  The University intends to retain homes for its own use calling into doubt the premise of the Cherwell District Council's Local Plan Partial Review which is supposedly to meet Oxford's unmet need

The Cherwell Local Plan allocates land to the north of Cutteslowe Park for housing and this view across the cricket pitch will be urbanised and lost forever.

The unspoiled view across the rural Cherwell Valley north west from Cutteslowe Park.