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		<title>Joint Core Strategy Consultation &#8211; What you can do NOW!</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/joint-core-strategy-consultation-what-you-can-do-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our final chance to have our say in the future of our town and countryside! What is the JCS? The Joint Core Strategy (JCS) in a house building plan put out by Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tewkesbury councils together to plan for the needs of our 322,600 residents for the next 20 years. The public consultation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=671&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JCS Consultation now started!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Joint Core Strategy consultation starts today, on the 13th December 2011 and runs until 5pm on the 12th February 2012. Your views are very important to the development of the local area over the next 20 years. Participate here. Heres a piece Barry Simons wrote for the Swindon Village news about the JCS&#8230; The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=658&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Protest at Cheltenham Council Offices</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/big-protest-at-cheltenham-council-offices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[STC and LegLag join forces On Thursday 10th November the combined the forces of STC and LegLag mobilised about one hundred of us for a peaceful demonstration outside the council offices in Cheltenhams promenade. We were makinb our views heard on the Joint Core Strategy (JCS). On that day councillors were about to pass for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=624&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to JCS Steering Group Members</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/letter-to-jcs-steering-group-members/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This letter was written to the councillors from Gloucester City council proceeded their consideration of the JCS &#8216;Preferred Options&#8217; document. It lays out our dismay at the process which it likely to see the document passed with all its flaws, omissions, inaccuracies and downright biased view. TO ALL JCS STEERING GROUP MEMBERS Dear Steering Group [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=629&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joint Core Strategy published with high housing targets</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/joint-core-strategy-with-high-housing-targets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night was a important milestone at the Tewkesbury Borough Council offices which sets the stage for many hundreds of house to land on our doorsteps. The councillors authorised the Joint Core Strategy for consultation by the public. In the document there were four levels of housing options. Option A being the lowest and option [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=614&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green light for development to NW of Cheltenham?</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/green-light-for-development-to-nw-of-cheltenham/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The green belt review has now been published. Its good news for land around Leckhampton but bad news for land around Swindon Village to the NW of Cheltenham. Areas have been rated on their value for green belt purposes. With Red meaning are large contribution to green belt objectives and Green meaning little contributions. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=604&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making a Mockery of Localism</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/making-a-mockery-of-localism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government’s claim that local people will have more say over planning is an outright lie. By George Monbiot, published on the Guardian’s website 6th September 2011 The government is telling us two stories, which don’t seem to connect. New building, it says, will be approved with less control than before. And local people will, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=600&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>STC on Radio 4!</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/597/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hear Helen Wells, Anne Griffiths and Martin Horwood talk about planning issues around Swindon Village and the wider countryside on World at One, from Friday 9 Sep, 2011. Hear it here<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=597&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>localism bill will sacrifice our countryside to market forces</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/national-planning-policy-framework/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anne, Alice and Margaret White from LegLag (who wrote this), have alerted me to threat to the countryside from the NPPF. The damage that could be done is truly shocking. I urge you all to take action. The Government has issued during the Parliamentary Recess a draft document that could change the face of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=590&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fourth walk a huge success</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/fourth-walk-a-huge-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 15:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 100 people came out for a sunny but blustery walk over the fields around Swindon Village. We can celebrate 4 years on and no building yet. We must remain vigilant though. We were also filmed by Cotswold TV. See it here Barry Simons delighted the children by hiding fluffy animals along the route while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=578&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Countryside Walk in May</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/save-the-countryside-walk-in-may/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At present we are winning. However the next challenge comes in the Autumn when the Joint Core Strategy is published. While it is still being prepared we need to let Local Government know we are still here and still want to protect our countryside. So the next event is the fourth annual walk over the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=565&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joint Core Strategy Latest</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/joint-core-strategy-latest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a recent committee meeting for Save the Countryside, Steve Jordan of Cheltenham Borough Council briefed us on recent developments. Two points in particular are worth mentioning. The first is that delivery of the Joint Core Strategy had been put back to allow it to better meet the requirements of government development policy which is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=550&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Presentation with Swindon Village Society</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/stc-presentation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a big turnout on 16 Feb where the Swindon Village Society hosted a presentation by Save The Countryside. The general message was that lots has been achieved and no building had happened yet! But, there is currently a policy vacuum which creates uncertainty and leave a gap for developers to use. It is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=551&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>March 2011 Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we celebrate the success of the scrapping of the RSS and wait for the latest joint core strategy to be released we now are working on practical plans. Under the new localism and communities Bill from Parliament local communities are tasked with developing their own Neighborhood Plans which will be used in the planning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=548&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Countryside Presentation &#8211; Swindon Village</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/save-the-countryside-presentation-swindon-village/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, 16th February 2011 the Save the Countryside team will give a presentation to the Swindon Village Society on where the campaign stands at present. This presentation is open to anyone. The venue is Swindon Village Hall which is on Church Road, Swindon Village at the north end of the playing fields. It will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=539&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Joint Core Strategy</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/the-joint-core-strategy-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the last committee meeting of the STS a member of the Joint Core Strategy Team provided some useful information. The JCS has commissioned a review of the green belt(s) by an external contractor to take place in the period Jan-Mar 2011 for presentation to the JCS in the spring. This does not mean that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=537&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We are Just a Bunch of Lambys</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/we-are-just-a-bunch-of-lambys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Save the Countryside Update From Helen Wells Nimby (Not In My Back Yard) is a word sometimes used with negative conections about campaign groups such as Save The Countryside. That does not describe what our campaign is all about. In fact it is about Looking After My Backyard.And we are still at it nearly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=535&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scrapping of RSSs ruled unlawful</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/scrapping-of-rsss-ruled-unlawful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shock news! Just when we though top-down houses figures had been scrapped they are back! You can&#8217;t make this stuff up. High court ruling says the goverments scrapping of Regional Spatial Strategies when they came to power was unlawful. However, housing minister Bob Neil says this will change little since this problem will be fixed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=532&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We get to speak in Parliamentary Select Committee!</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/stc-speak-in-parliamentary-select-committee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone. Ron and Alice represented our combined campaigns brilliantly yesterday as witnesses in the Parliamentary Select committee &#8211; Communities and Local Government Committee. The topic was the abolition of regional spatial strategies. You can see them on this video link. Alice Ross and Ron Morton spoke with Mark Steele from Ringwood Town Council, they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=522&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coalition abandons Localism from the start!</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/coalition-abandons-localism-from-the-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears that a third party right of appeal will not appear in the forthcoming localism belt. Such a right would give local people a right to be taken seriously when objecting to large scale developments on land on their doorstep. The coalition made this a pre-election pledge, it is looking like they have abandoned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=519&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An invitation to help shape the Nature of England</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/an-invitation-to-help-shape-the-nature-of-england/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEFRA is currently collecting your views on how we can best protect and enhance the natural environment. The on-line survey runs until 30th October 2010. The questions ask are: Which parts of the natural environment matter most to you? How do you feel you benefit from the natural environment? How do you think we could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=516&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Campaigners Fear Open Season on Gloucestershire Greenbelt</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/campaigners-fear-open-season-on-gloucestershire-greenbelt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is big news! The council has just published the Urban Extensions Definition Study. This was prepared for the RSS. It shows all the likely sites in the greenbelt that the RSS came up with. The council says it is to fill a legal planning vacumm since the scrapping of the RSS until December 2011 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=512&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joint Core Strategy consultation news</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/joint-core-strategy-consultation-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Issues and Key Questions public consultation report The JCS Issues and Key Questions public consultation was held between November 2009 and February 2010. Corresponding Parish Council events were held in February and March 2010. A report on all of this activity has now been published and can be viewed on the JCS website Current consultation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=503&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regional Spatial Strategies Scrapped!</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/localism-will-protect-the-green-belt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised the new Lib Dem-Conservative government has now scrapped the Regional Spatial Strategies. Hooray!! Find the announcement here. And in the last day or so Cheltenham Borough Council has also reflected this change in the joint Cheltenham-Tewkesbury Joint Core Strategy. The JCS was forced to be broadly in line with the RSS so by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=467&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Success! Stoke Orchard gets housing on brownfield site</title>
		<link>http://savethecountryside.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/success-stoke-orchard-gets-housing-on-brownfield-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 20:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AN EYESORE in Stoke Orchard is set to be revamped after villagers used their voice to sway committee members. A fresh bid to regenerate the former Coal Research Establishment (CRE) was given the thumbs up by Tewkesbury Borough Council&#8217;s planning committee, even though it did not fit into its official policy. Ashfield Land Management put [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savethecountryside.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3045691&amp;post=461&amp;subd=savethecountryside&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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