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I refer to the Local Plan and confirm that I am sending my objection by email as the link on the WDC website is not working.
Please consider my objections on the following grounds:
1. The proposed modifications may address some but not all shortcomings identified by the Inspector in his letter dated June 2015, which followed his examination. That dealt primarily with the numbers of houses. The examination did not deal with other aspects of the plan to which objections were submitted, and that makes the plan unsound. The original objections should not be ignored.
2. The transport proposals on which the plan was based were subject to objections as they were unaffordable and unworkable. The impact of the new development areas (including those permitted under recent planning consents) on transport plans has not been satisfactorily explained or exposed to public scrutiny and, hence, must still be regarded as unsound.
3. In the absence of an adopted local plan the Secretary of State overturned the decision of the Inspector of the Asps Inquiry arguing that the predicted demand for housing should take precedence. Now, however, the anticipated demand for housing can be met within the new plan and there is the opportunity to plan to safeguard the remaining important open areas from development.
For the reasons set out above I object to the allocation for housing of the land west of Banbury Road and at the northern end of Gallows Hill, known as "The Strawberry Field." - which would be even more damaging is liable to flooding.