{"id":8236,"date":"2013-02-09T00:26:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T23:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8236"},"modified":"2013-02-09T00:26:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T23:26:07","slug":"appeal-lodged-against-refusal-to-build-160-houses-in-a-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8236","title":{"rendered":"Appeal on the refusal to allow 160 houses in a field, often used by horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Horse Field\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13020703.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAn appeal has been lodged against the decision of the Vale of White Horse District Council to refuse the application for 160 houses to be built in a field &#8211; often used by horses.<\/p>\n<p>As people predicted the main grounds for appeal are :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The district council&#8217;s local plan has run out and there is no new one in place.<\/li>\n<li>The National Panning Policy Framework (NPPF) means that in such cases national policies to meet housing targets should have more weight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Horse Field\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13020704.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk\/java\/support\/Main.jsp?MODULE=ApplicationDetails&#038;REF=P12%2FV2266%2FFUL\">The appeal<\/a>, although mostly couched in phrases pulled from the NPPF, also addresses more local grounds for refusal, saying:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abingdon treatment works will easily be able to deal with the extra load.<\/li>\n<li>If Oxfordshire County Council implemented the suggested traffic mitigation measures then traffic would be no worse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Thanks to Nigel for the pictures of the field.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An appeal has been lodged against the decision of the Vale of White Horse District Council to refuse the application for 160 houses to be built in a field &#8211; often used by horses. As people predicted the main grounds for appeal are : The district council&#8217;s local plan has run out and there is [&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-8236","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\/8236","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=8236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}