The Oxfordshire County Council Cabinet will decide on September 19 if they will agree to lease or sell the land at the Triangle to the Club to build a new stadium. OxVox have written to the Cabinet to push for a decision.
We have a few more weeks to add to the massive support this stadium project has and make sure the Council knows the strength of that feeling.
We urge all supporters to write to the County Council Cabinet to ask for a positive decision on September 19 and to remind them that any further indecision could threaten the future of our club.
Your magnificent efforts with the petition and emails in the early stages of the process made a big impact and it is now time to push again.
Letters to the County Council Cabinet – points to note:
- Be polite. We need to show the Cabinet we are so much more than the opposition paints us to be. Be polite but firm.
- Be brief. The council receives a lot of emails and keeping yours short will make your point stronger.
- Use your own words. We hope to have thousands of emails flooding into the cabinet to show them the strength of our support, so make it personal. Tell them why the club is important to you.
If you are stuck for something to mention then maybe consider these points:
- The cabinet delay in making a decision puts the future of our club at risk.
- We as constituents and voters have the right to know what our elected officials intend to do.
- With all the information the Council requested from the Club now in their hands, and the process paused for over six months already, further delays and legal challenges are unwarranted and endanger the Club.
- Remind them of what the Club means to you and the tens of thousands of people in the county.
Below are the email addresses of all cabinet members (clicking on an address should open an email window) :
Liz Leffman (Cabinet Chair) liz.leffman@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Liz Brighouse (Deputy Chair) liz.brighouse@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Glynis Phillips glynis.phillips@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Pete Sudbury pete.sudbury@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Tim Bearder tim.bearder@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Duncan Enright duncan.enright@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Calum Miller calum.miller@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Andrew Gant andrew.gant@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Kate Gregory kate.gregory@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Michael O’Connor michael.oconnor@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Liz Leffman is the Cabinet chair and would be a good choice to send to, but all members can be contacted.
As well as contacting the Cabinet, an email to your local County Councillor will reinforce this message. You can find out who your County Councillor is by entering your postcode at this website: https://www.writetothem.com/.