Planning public enquiry into Huscote Farm fields pulled

The Council wants to recover its costs from a speculative developer who’s planning appeal was withdrawn

Today was to have been the first day of a public enquiry into an application to build up to 140,000 square metres of commercial property near the small hamlet of Nethercote on Huscote Farm, to the east of the M40 and the A361.

That is now not happening.  The appeal has been withdrawn after the applicant failed to supply the information requested by the Planning Inspector.

The speculative planning application was first submitted in May 2022 by Greystoke CB.   It was yet to reach the stage where local Councillors were able to make a decision, but that was taken out of their hands when the applicant lodged an appeal directly with the Planning Inspectorate.

At a planning meeting in February Councillors were asked to consider how they would have voted had the decision remained with them.   At that stage they rejected the application – a decision that would have been fed into the appeal process.

With the appeal process now called off Cherwell District Council, National Highways and Oxfordshire County Council have all separately applied to the Planning Inspectorate for a full award of their costs to be recovered from Greystoke CB.

The company had submitted a second application which they noted as a revision of the original scheme.   That has been rejected by the Council’s officers.

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Published: 11/04/2023 03:12pm by Banbury FM Newsteam

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