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Fundraising

Our appeal for donations is in full swing.  Very many thanks to all those of you who have recently contributed to our fundraising appeal.  We are extremely grateful.

However, we still need more to reach our target of £5000!! The anticipated expenses for legal and other professional assistance to support our campaign are enormous, and so we ask all of you who have not yet donated to contribute to our efforts to stop the high speed train.  All residents should have received a request for donations – please use the form which accompanied this request.  If it has gone missing or you did not receive one, please phone Mike Geddes on 01926.425752 or Francis Daniell on 01926.336760 and we will provide another one.

Next meeting

Our next meeting will be on Monday 20 December at 7.30 at Ford Farm, Welsh Road.  By then the government will have published its final proposals for the route and details of the public consultation due to start in the new year, so we will have plenty to discuss.

NEXT ACTION GROUP MEETING

Our next meeting is on Tuesday 5 October – all welcome.

OFFCHURCH HS2 ACTION GROUP

Lowfield, Long Itchington Rd, 7.30pm, Tuesday 5 October 2010

 DRAFT AGENDA

1.  Attendance and apologies
2. Minutes of last meeting (to follow) and matters arising
3. Items for report back and information:
   * Walk the Route
   * Meetings with Philip Hammond, Secretary of State
4. Items for discussion, decision and action:
   a) Open Meeting Monday 11 October
   b) Wine tasting, Friday 10 December
   c)  Fundraising 
5.  AOB   
6. Confirmation of dates/venues for November/December meetings

OPEN MEETING

We will be holding an open meeting about HS2 at 7pm on Monday 11 October in the Village Hall.  This will be an opportunity to update everyone about recent developments and the Action Group’s future plans.

WINE TASTING, FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER, 7.30, VILLAGE HALL

Wondering what wine to buy to go with the Christmas meal?  Or do you just enjoy a glass or two?  Come and taste eight fine wines (Three whites including one sparkling, four reds, one dessert wine).

Tickets £12 from Francis Daniell, Field View, Long Itchington Rd, fafjen@googlemail.com.  Places are limited so make sure to buy your tickets early!

The HS2 Action Alliance has published two new papers:

The first is a critical appraisal of the business case for HS2 – see http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/sites/bcc/transport/high_speed_2.page

The second is the report on property blight, using information from many local action groups, including Offchurch, which has been sent to HS2 Ltd  – see

http://www.hs2actionalliance.org/powercms//files/cms_files/Property%20Blight%20Pilot%20Study%20-with%20Annexes%20truncated%20for%20we…(3).pdf

News about HS2 continues to come thick and fast.

1. The government has just announced that it is investigating a possible alternative route via Heathrow, and that the public consultation has been put back until early 2011 – see here.

2.  A paper from the Campaign for Better Transport asks some fundamental questions about HS2 – see here.

3.  And the national Action Alliance has published a paper on Alternatives to HS2 – see here.

This is an old post – for all the latest news including details of a walk of the route on Saturday 11th September please click here

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The next meeting of the Offchurch HS2 Action Group is on Tuesday 27 July at 7.30 in St Gregory’s Church.

All welcome!

Click here for the agenda  Offchurch Draft agenda 27 July