PLANS to boost security at the home of Rupert Murdoch’s daughter and build a car park at a congested train station will be discussed next week.

West Oxfordshire District Council ’s uplands area planning subcommittee will debate the applications on Monday.

Mr Murdoch’s daughter, Elisabeth Murdoch, and her PR tycoon husband, Matthew Freud, claim their Burford home has become a target for thieves and intruders.

The couple hope to construct a lodge, housing a full-time guard, at the entrance to the Grade I-listed Burford Priory.

Meanwhile, First Great Western has applied to build a 191-space car park at Hanborough Station to stop commuters parking outside nearby homes.

It hopes to remove industrial units on the former Hewden Hire Plant site in Main Road, Long Hanborough, adjacent to the station, for the scheme.

The station’s 50-space car park is often full by 6.45am and dozens of drivers park on the grass verges along Main Road and outside homes.

Both applications have been recommended for approval by the district council’s planning officers.

Councillors will also discuss plans to demolish Enstone Parish Hall to create a new home, and the construction of replacement staff accommodation at Lidstone Nurseries, near Chipping Norton.

The committee will meet at the council’s Woodgreen offices from 2pm.