A decision over building an 800-person asylum detention centre near Bicester may not be made today after all.

Councillors on Cherwell District Council are meeting this afternoon to decide on planning permission for the proposal on former MOD land, known as A site, between Piddington and Arncott.

Officers had initially recommended that councillors approve it.

However this morning they have now asked the committee to put off making a decision until the next planning meeting in April because they are still waiting for information from organisations concerned with the proposed development.

Councillors will decide tonight whether to proceed or not.