Witney planning: 18,000 homes in draft Local Plan 2043

Witney sits on the Windrush at the eastern edge of the Cotswolds, a town that made blankets for centuries and is now mostly a place people commute from. Carterton is a few miles west and grew around the airbase. Chipping Norton is up in the hills, Burford is on the Gloucestershire road, and Woodstock, Eynsham and Bampton fill in the rest of west Oxfordshire.

Witney News reports from the public record. West Oxfordshire District Council decides planning, bins, car parks and licensing; Oxfordshire County Council runs the roads and the schools. Faringdon, which some descriptions of this area include, sits in a neighbouring district under a different council, and we say so rather than letting anyone assume. Every fact we print links to its document.

Start with these

• Witney planning news: the draft Local Plan 2043 puts just over 18,000 homes in the district, including a new settlement next to Witney. The Regulation 19 consultation is due this August.
• Witney house prices: the middle sale in the Witney postal area was £380,000, and West Oxfordshire is the only local measure currently falling, down 2.4 per cent on the year.
• Witney roadworks and travel: the High Street is northbound only until November, the Shores Green slip roads opened in July, and every council car park is free.
• Witney trains to London: the town has had no station since 1962, so we compare the four railheads people actually use, from Hanborough at £7,156 a year to Oxford Parkway at £6,552.
• Things to do in Witney: eleven places with prices checked this week, four of them free.

The rest of the site

• News: the record, including planning decisions in the towns and the villages.
• Local Info: the practical pages above, each linked back to the official source.
• What’s On: what is happening in Witney and Chipping Norton.

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