COUNCILLORS are to press ahead with deciding where 750 new homes will be built in Wallingford, despite the town’s MP urging them to delay.
Ed Vaizey, now Culture Minister in the new Government, has called on Conservative-run South Oxfordshire District Council to postpone a vote on which of three sites should take the new homes until the Government had determined its planning policy.
The council has said any further delay is impossible.
Mr Vaizey said he was writing to Eric Pickles, the Communities and Local Government secretary to get a clear answer as to whether the plans could be halted, pending an overhaul of planning strategy.
He said: “I would urge all councils to hold their horses in terms of pressing ahead with their proposals on local development plans until the landscape is clear.”
But council leader Ann Ducker said the core strategy of the Local Development Framework would be discussed at a scrutiny meeting on Tuesday, June 1, and voted on by the cabinet two days later.
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