This year has been a disastrous year in the history of Port Meadow, with the university flats at Roger Dudman Way, and the rail track-laying operations.
Responsibility for planning decisions are with Oxford City Council, and they should therefore ultimately shoulder the blame for the damage that these developments have done to the landscape setting.
In order that future developments in the proximity of the meadow do not compromise the meadow, policies should be drawn up to protect it. The key to protection lies in the planting around the fringe.
Unfortunately this screening is largely dependent on crack willow which, as its Latin name Salix fragilis suggests, is brittle, and requires regular pollarding to ensure the trees are kept save from falling branches. Additional planting such as poplar, white willow, alder and ash should be carried out to retain the screen after the willows are pollarded.
John Thompson, Secretary, Forest of Oxford
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