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SONNING Common Parish Council is to spend £30,000 on legal representation at an inquiry into a development it opposes.
Inspired Villages appealed after being refused planning permission for a new retirement village in Blounts Court Road, opposite the Johnson Matthey Technology Centre.
Its application was rejected by South Oxfordshire District Council, the planning authority, in June.
The appeal will be heard at an inquiry in front of a planning inspector in April.
The parish council opposes the plans on the grounds that the development would be “excessive and inappropriate” and contrary to the village’s neighbourhood plan.