New site for Thame Cattle Market?

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IT was revealed tonight (Tuesday) that the owners of Thame Cattle Market are in talks with a local land owner in its search for a new site.

The new site of interest under discussion between SODC and Thame Farmers Mart, is farm land at North Weston off Rycote Lane, just past Gregory’s Distribution headquarters. (See image)

Yellow spot show the location of the site under discussion

The Thame Cattle Market is privately operated by a co-operative of local farmers on the current site in North Street, where it has been operating since 1949. The lease on the site, which is owned by South Oxfordshire District Council, runs out in four years time by which time a new home for the Cattle Market will have to be found. The existing facilities are becoming less and less suitable as animal welfare regulations increase.

A planning application for a new cattle market on the Thame Show Ground was approved in 2008 but expired in 2014.

Though two attempts to build large supermarkets on the cattle market site have been fought off, the site is ear-marked for ‘mixed use’ in the current Thame Neighbourhood Plan and the district council’s Local Plan, and any future use is expected to include community facilities – though a small, budget supermarket has been mooted as a possibility by the town council.

Comments

4 responses to “New site for Thame Cattle Market?”

01/01/2019

Samantha Stevens

The powers that be seem determined to distroy the character of Thame.
28/06/2017

Sonja Francis

Unlikely because a large supermarket is neither in the Neighbourhood Plan nor the district council’s (the planning authority) Locals Plan to 2032. Both state the need for for less retail square footage going forward, than would work for a large supermarket.
28/06/2017

Tony Rushforth

We may eventually see sense and get a Tesco then ? No more coffee shops, charity shops or wine bar / restaurants required
28/06/2017

ELLEN WILKINS

Great news to move the Cattle Market and free up that site Moving the Market to Thame Show Ground was a good idea with the Thame By Pass good road infurstructure all ready in place The Proposed Site in Rycote Lane on an extremely busy A329 ADJACEBT TO A BAD BEND AND ROAD JUNCTION TO MORETON we travel that road most days as do members of our family daily to get to work at present we are often delayed with HGV lorries turning into Gregorys Depot
ASM and now David Eing Depot What would the road structure be for enterance and exit be for The proposed Cattle Market would improvements be made if so what We come from a Farming Background and it is so important to Keep THAME CATTLE MARKET so many MARKETS have closed as Farmers now sell direct to the Supermarket PLEASE DO NOT LET OUR CATTLE MARKET CLOSE AS IT IS PART OF THAME HISTORY WHEN IT WAS IN THE UPPER HIGH ST The Annual SHEEP FAIR is held at Thame Show Ground we wish Thame Farmers Cooperative every success