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Moreton Against Over Development is a resident-led campaign.

The campaign team, all local residents, are:

Neil Backwith 

Darren Curry

Bob Eastoe 

Sue Stapely

Daryl Corps, CDC Ward Member for Moreton West, supports the group. 

Moreton Against Over Development is an unincorporated association with a Constitution that sets out how the group operates. (Click the link or scroll down to the Downloads section.)

No. The campaign team would support development that is reasonable and proportionate, with the necessary infrastructure and an appropriate proportion of truly affordable homes. The Cotswold District Council are proposing to put the majority of the housing 'need' for the whole district into a town with just 5% of the population, a town which has already seen huge growth. More housing will only make existing infrastructure issues worse, and the Council has not promised, nor can it be trusted, to fix them. The housing the Council deems to be an 'affordable' price is still well out of reach of many local people. Some new 2-bedroom homes on these new developments start at a huge £400,000.

You can also join our Facebook group:  Moreton against overdevelopment | Facebook 

Email: moretonagainstoverdevelopment@gmail.com

Press enquiries: sue@suestapely.com

YOUR VOTE COUNTS

No, not the General Election, that’s not till 4th July.

A more urgent and immediate vote is taking place HERE IN MORETON ON SATURDAY 8TH JUNE.

You will have heard rumblings that a campaign to oppose Cotswold District Council’s Local Plan Update proposals has been working behind the scenes. The core team includes 5 local residents with whom many of you have already been helpfully in touch: Darren Curry, Sue Stapely, Neil Backwith, and Cllr Bob Eastoe. Though two of these are Town Councillors (with one being a General Election candidate), this is an independent non-political initiative, not one of any council. Between us we have skills and experience in many fields including television and film production, law, finance, campaigns, media, communications and PR. We all share real concerns about the future of the town in which we have chosen to make our home. The group is supported by Cllr Daryl Corps, CDC Ward Member for Moreton West.

THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO VOTE ABOUT WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH THE PROPOSALS OF COTSWOLD DISTRICT COUNCIL TO BUILD 1,810 MORE HOMES HERE IN OUR HISTORIC TOWN.

Over the next few days, a team of volunteers is aiming to deliver 2 small white voting slips to every home in Moreton - most homes have 2 adults in them. Anyone over 18 can vote. We should be very grateful if you would make time on SATURDAY 8 JUNE, between 10.00 am and 4.00pm to bring them, with the relevant box ticked, to the Campaign Ballot Box which will be clearly visible under a canopy with a banner saying YOUR VOTE near the Corn Exchange on the High Street (where the coaches park on Market Day). Come and join us – there might be cake - the more the merrier!

If for any reason it is difficult for you to bring your voting slip to us, then you can respond online - voting slips will all have a QR code on them, or you can use the Survey Monkey link.

Alternatively, you can scan the completed slip or take a photo on your phone and email it to moretonagainstoverdevelopment@gmail.com.

NUMBERS MATTER WHEN CAMPAIGNING

Please don’t just grumble on social media. Fill in the voting slips and pop them in our box on 8 JUNE, or contact moretonagainstoverdevelopment@gmail.com to have your slip collected if you really can’t manage to get it back to be counted any other way, or if you need more voting slips.