Referendum for the future of Wallingford plans heraldseries.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heraldseries.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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A WOMAN is appealing against an order to shut down an unauthorised wedding and party venue.
Penny Holley, who owns The Copse in Mill Lane, Kidmore End, began hosting functions for up to 120 people in 2016.
Three years later, she was ordered to stop after neighbours complained to South Oxfordshire District Council, the planning authority.
The council said she could still offer holiday lets to smaller groups, as she had been doing for years with permission, but issued an enforcement notice banning other uses.
It ordered her to remove a “dining platform”, an area of decking with a marquee which it says was built without consent, and tear down a wall of hay bales which she erected as a sound barrier.
Decision on HGVs ban put back after emotional meeting henleystandard.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from henleystandard.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Barton Park development SHIFTING goalposts in planning targets may leave areas of countryside around Oxford open to housing development. Since 2017, the county has had a special arrangement with the Government where planning chiefs must demonstrate three years worth of homes are being built to meet predicted need for housing. But now, all five of Oxfordshire’s district councils, which oversee planning, will have to revert to the normal arrangements of maintaining a five-year housing land supply, to meet housebuilding targets calculated by the Government. Property firm Savills has said the change leaves all Oxfordshire councils at risk of developers building on land which is not set aside for homes if they cannot show they have a five-year supply, while council leaders have said they are disappointed.
Power lines buried and light pollution reduced in South Oxfordshire heraldseries.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heraldseries.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.