Board changes at ENCON

ENCON would like to express our thanks to Stephen Peach, Carol Geare and Mark Hudson who are stepping down as Trustees after many years of service.  Joining Hamish Laing (chair) and Robert Johnston on the Board are two new trustees, Church Enstone residents Mary Curnock Cook and Nigel Roby.

ENCON promotes and enhances the ecology, environment and heritage of the Enstone Uplands area. Set up in 2006, ENCON is a charity funded by our members and charitable donations that aims to ensure this unique part of West Oxfordshire is protected both for now and future generations. Our area is flanked by Lidstone to the west and Middle Barton to the east taking in the villages of Church Enstone, Neat Enstone, Cleveley, Gagingwell, Great and Little Tew, Heythrop, Ledwell, Westcott Barton, Radford, Sandford St Martin and Over Worton.

ENCON seeks to increase the biodiversity of the local area either through our own initiatives or by working with local groups such as Enstone Eco. Where opportunities arise to deliver environmentally-positive changes in land use, then ENCON aims to use its funding, charitable status and deep local connections to deliver significant improvements to the landscape.

Major planning decisions affect all of us. Navigating complex planning processes is hard. ENCON’s own knowledge and its access to specialist planning expertise has been put to good use in recent cases such as Cling Clang farm and in working on the Mullin community forum to mitigate the impacts of this significant development.

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