Oakington

“The sale of Oakington is yet another example of the strong working relationship between two government agencies in devising strategies to make best use of surplus public sector land.”

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“The sale of Oakington is yet another example of the strong working relationship between two government agencies in devising strategies to make best use of surplus public sector land.”

Brits Redeveloping Brownfield into ‘Sustainable Town’ 2006

"If you dig up old burial grounds and then screen your dig from local people, they become suspicious," added Sayer, who is leading an excavation at a Saxon cemetery at Oakington in Cambridgeshire.

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“The land at Oakington will make a significant contribution to Northstowe where a new and sustainable community offering homes, amenities, jobs and open space is planned in an area of housing need.”

Brits Redeveloping Brownfield into ‘Sustainable Town’ 2006

The Archbishop of York and I spent a couple of hours this afternoon in a detention centre in Oakington, and that is why I want to say rather strongly this evening that quite a bit of our society and our world is not organized on the basic vision that human beings are infinitely worthwhile.

What Difference Does it Make? - The Gospel in Contemporary Culture Questions & Answers Session 2008

The people who work at Oakington are honest and hardworking people, caught up in a system that they can't alter by their own individual decisions.

Faith in the Future 2008

And so as I look back at these two or three days, I don't actually feel as though I've been shunted from pillar to post trying to cope with vastly and unmanageably different contexts, but that there's been a real continuity between what's happening in Oakington, Emmaus, the University, the whole thing.

Faith in the Future 2008

Thanks to Mike Papageorge at AlternativeSource for passing along this piece of very cool news — the Brits are building an entire sustainable town on “the disused Oakington Barracks in Cambridgeshire”:

Brits Redeveloping Brownfield into ‘Sustainable Town’ 2006

And there again, glory, a sense of dignity, a sense of people responding to a call, a sense of something very fundamental being uncovered about humanity as such and a sense of how, in spite of Oakington, human beings are still capable of living alongside each other more deeply and demandingly than the world often imagines.

Faith in the Future 2008

I want to pick out perhaps, three encounters [from over the past three days] beginning with our visit to Oakington detention centre.

Faith in the Future 2008