This land is ours

Shepherd, Mark

This land is ours - 2006 - Property Week 71(7) 17 February 2006, 66-68(3) .

Focuses on a resident's crusade to save six acres of reed beds and scrubland near her home in Oxford. Catherine Robinson is fighting a legal battle against Oxford Citizens Housing Association, who want to use some of the land (known locally as the 'trap grounds') for affordable housing. Robinson is trying to register the land as a village green in order to protect it from development and has formed a campaign raising money for a defence fund. Having losing a hearing at the Court of Appeal ([2005] EDCA Cir 175), she is now taking her case to the House of Lords.


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