Banburyshire village welcomes MP Victoria Prentis to discuss parish issues

“There is a lot of important work going on in our two villages and it was heartening to see our MP taking such an interest”.

Community representatives from the village of Great Bourton, including the chair of the Bourtons Parish Council, Sue Upton, spoke with the MP for North Oxfordshire about important local issues on Friday August 5.

Some of the concerns discussed were village planning, tree planting, wildflower verges, traffic management, fundraising for the restoration of the All Saints’ bell tower, and the work being done for the new Wildlife Friendly Community project.

Ms Prentis also took a walk to an area of the village where residents have worked to turn a communal patch of land into an area that now incorporates wildflower patches, a ‘dead hedge’ and a children's bicycle track.

Ann Brooks, of the Wildlife Friendly Community project in the Bourton villages, said: “There is a lot of important work going on in our two villages and it was

heartening to see our MP taking such an interest.”