Showdown meeting over housing plan
4:35pm Sunday 20th July 2008
Oxfordshire MPs Tony Baldry and John Howell are set for a showdown meeting with housing minister Caroline Flint tomorrow.
And the Tory duo are sure to put two controversial housing developments at the top of the agenda.
On Friday, the Oxford Mail revealed that Communities Secretary Hazel Blears approved, in principle, a 4,000-housing development on land south of Grenoble Road, on the edge of Oxford.
The news was welcomed by Oxford City Council, but opposed by South Oxfordshire District Council.
Part of the land planners want to develop falls within South Oxfordshire, in newly-elected Mr Howell's Henley constituency.
Meanwhile, debate continues to rumble on about the merits of the eco-town proposal at Weston Otmoor, one of the so-called "Brown's Town's", which Mr Baldry is vehemently opposed to.
No final decision has been made on the scheme, which planners claim could provide 15,000 new homes and provide rapid transport links to Oxford and London.