{"id":9459,"date":"2013-08-19T22:37:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T21:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9459"},"modified":"2013-08-19T22:37:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T21:37:34","slug":"no-legal-challenge-to-59-houses-in-a-field-near-south-abingdon-but-no-building-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9459","title":{"rendered":"No Legal Challenge &#8230; but no building yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago a group of residents took a petition to the Vale of White Horse District Council asking that the council appeal against the decision of the planning inspector to allow 159 homes to be built in a field alongside South Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>Legal advice has been taken and the 2 legal experts judge that The Planning Inspector&#8217;s decision could not be challenged on legal ground. He allowed the scheme to go ahead because the Vale of White Horse District Council did not have a five year housing plan in place as required by the the NPPF &#8211; National Planning Policy Framework, voted in by the coalition government as a way to quickly free up land for house building.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13082003.jpg\" alt=\"159 Houses\" \/><br \/>\nThe Planning Inspector had also considered the main objection, traffic, and made sure that traffic mitigation measures go ahead before any development.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13082002.jpg\" alt=\"159 Houses\" \/><br \/>\nSo now it is all down to whether the traffic mitigation measures (those extra pedestrian lights) suggested by the developers are allowed by Oxfordshire County Council. That is not a foregone conclusion given that it has to go through public consultation. So expect a story about that in the not too distant future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago a group of residents took a petition to the Vale of White Horse District Council asking that the council appeal against the decision of the planning inspector to allow 159 homes to be built in a field alongside South Abingdon. Legal advice has been taken and the 2 legal experts judge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459","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=9459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}