8:13pm Sunday 13th January 2008
By Gordon Rogers
The fight for the future of Radley Lakes near Abingdon enters another stage tomorrow, with campaigners still calling for Town Green status.
The item is top of the agenda at a meeting of the county council's planning and regulation committee. Members of the Save Radley Lakes campaign plan to demonstrate outside County Hall just before the meeting, where councillors are being recommended by officers to throw out the application.
Campaigners believe Town Green status would save Thrupp Lake from being used as a dump for spent fuel from Didcot power station.
RWE npower says it needs to drain the lake and will be using it for ash until the coal-fired station closes in 2015. Campaigner Marjorie White added: "If councillors haven't walked over the land themselves, then we are saying they should defer a decision until they have done so."
She also said councillors should visit the Trap Grounds in North Oxford, where a successful Town Green application had forced Oxford City Council to abandon plans for housing.
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