Woodstock residents protesting against Blenheim s latest plans for housing in the town. Picture by Ed Nix Enough is enough” Woodstock residents have declared after Blenheim submitted another planning application for a third large housing estate in the town. Members of the Campaign to Protect Old Woodstock said that the proposals exceed the number of new homes outlined in West Oxfordshire District Council’s local plan and that the infrastructure of the town will not be able to cope. Blenheim is already constructing 300 houses at Park View and has submitted plans for 250 homes on Banbury Road. Now it has submitted a third application for 180 homes at Hill Rise in Old Woodstock.
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One of the pet villains of this site, Kathryn Wylde of the New York City Partnership (now apparently calling herself “Kathy” to seem more of a woman of the people) has returned to her highest and best use: saying things on behalf of the rich and Big Finance that they’re too circumspect to say themselves. As we’ll see shortly, Wylde is doing her official water-carrying for the preservation of the standing of the well-off by launching an “alert” opposing New York State plans to raise taxes to shore up the city’s shaky finances.
Wylde has a history of telling howlers to defend the funders of her business lobby, as a quick gander through our archives show. Recall that we supported Eliot Spitzer’s run for New York City Controller, since that would put him in charge of the city’s pension system, where he would be ideally positioned to take on the way private equity grifts at investor (and ultimately taxpayer) expense. Of course Wylde was not happy about the idea. From a