A CONTROVERSIAL plan for hundreds of homes being built next to a high risk flood area will go ahead despite a slew of objections over increased traffic, huge overload on medical services, and air and noise pollution.
Vale of White Horse District Council planning committee debated the appearance, landscaping, layout and scale of the major development for the land off Dunmore Road. The estate of 425 residencies in the North Abingdon area by developer Commercial Estates Group will be a mix of one, two, three, four and five bedroom properties – 35 per cent of which will be affordable. Even though a number of committee members like councillors Jerry Avery and Paul Barrow had serious misgivings about the plan, permission for the size, type and layout of the homes was granted.
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£5 million boost for local authorities to tackle air pollution
Air Quality Grants awarded across England to fund local projects for cleaner air
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9 March 2021
Local authorities across England have been granted more than £5 million in government funding to deliver innovative projects to improve air quality.
The money, from the government’s Air Quality Grant, helps councils develop and implement measures to benefit schools, businesses and communities and reduce the impact of dirty air on people’s health. More than double the funding awarded in 2020 has been made available for this year’s grant, meaning a raft of particularly strong applications are being supported.
Household waste fly-tip has angry locals turning detective ANGRY residents have turned detective to track down fly-tippers who abandoned their houshold waste in the middle of a housing development. South Oxfordshire District Council officers are on the hunt for the offenders behind the pile of rubbish on a grass verge at Greenfinch Road, Didcot. The six bags of waste at Great Western Park included beauty products, sweet tubs and a Facebook photo frame. One Wantage resident Susan Leake advised the council to do a reverse image search on the photo in the frame. Another Val Berry advised to go through the trash in case there is a bill or a receipt in there.
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