{"id":21966,"date":"2019-01-27T21:09:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T20:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21966"},"modified":"2019-01-27T21:09:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T20:09:51","slug":"progress-on-old-bellingers-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21966","title":{"rendered":"Progress on old Bellinger Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19012702.jpg\" alt=\"Bellingers Site\" \/><br \/>\nBellinger,  the car dealer, moved from their Ock Street site on 7th October 2016.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19012701.jpg\" alt=\"Bellingers Site\" \/><br \/>\nChurchill Retirement Living then put in a planning application during February 2017 for&nbsp;39 one and two bedroom apartments on the site.<\/p>\n<p>The application was initially turned down by the Vale of White Horse District Council planning committee. The council officer judged that the benefits outweighed the concerns, but Councillors disagreed. Reasons for refusal were &#8216;&#8230;<i>the scale, bulk and close proximity of the proposed building&nbsp;<\/i><i>to existing dwellings, the proposal will cause an undue loss of light, sunlight and privacy to neighbouring properties&#8230;<\/i>&#8216;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19012703.jpg\" alt=\"Bellingers Site\" \/><br \/>\nSo the site has had a couple of years to return to nature. I once took a picture of a young fox on the site.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was then granted on appeal on 3rd October 2018 by a planning inspector,  and so building work cannot be far off now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bellinger, the car dealer, moved from their Ock Street site on 7th October 2016. Churchill Retirement Living then put in a planning application during February 2017 for&nbsp;39 one and two bedroom apartments on the site. The application was initially turned down by the Vale of White Horse District Council planning committee. The council officer judged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}