Artist appeals over order to tear down new ‘studio’ );
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AN artist is appealing against an order to tear down an “unlawful” studio he built in the countryside.
Clive Hemsley says the three-storey building in a field near Rotherfield Greys is not much bigger than the one he had previously proposed and which was approved by South Oxfordshire District Council, the planning authority, in 2017.
Mr Hemsley. from Henley, also says council officers regularly inspected the site at Greys Meadow but did not say anything was wrong until after the studio was finished.
They then told him to apply for retrospective permission, which he did last year but the application was rejected.
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Brothers investing time in British watch-making );
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DESPITE having opened a new 35,000 sq ft headquarters in Henley, Bremont’s founders say their mission is far from accomplished.
Nick and Giles English launched their watch-making venture from the former’s home in 2002, aiming to revive the sector in Britain as it was declining in the face of foreign competition.
Now the brothers say their two-storey base at Sheephouse Farm, off Reading Road, will allow them to hire more staff and ramp up production of their luxury mechanical timepieces.
They have 130 staff, including operators who build parts on site and specialists who assemble the finished product in airtight rooms.
Charity can convert old hospice into flats );
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PLANS to turn the former Sue Ryder hospice at Nettlebed into flats have been approved more than six years after they were drawn up.
The charity, which closed its inpatient unit at Joyce Grove in March last year, applied for permission for the conversion in February 2015.
Now South Oxfordshire District Council, the planning authority, has given consent as long as a footpath running along the northern edge of the site remains open to the public.
Sue Ryder has moved its outpatient services to a palliative care “hub” at Battle Barns, near Crowmarsh, along with a telephone support line which can arrange “hospice at home” visits by medical staff.
By Jim Dunton2021-04-07T05:00:00+01:00
High Court rejects judicial review bid against controversial local development plan ‘forced through’ by housing secretary Robert Jenrick
A High Court judge has refused a request for a judicial review into South Oxfordshire District Council’s decision to adopt a planning blueprint for 23,550 new homes over the next 15 years.
Campaign group the Bioabundance Community Interest Company argued the authority had been pressurised into the move by secretary of state for housing, communities and local government Robert Jenrick and sought a hearing to challenge the legality of the decision.
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Opponents to the plans said they will lead to increased speculative development in the area