The Case / News
NWAG posts roughly a handful of updates a year — a consultation response, a planning objection, a milestone. The register below spans 2016 to today. Each entry also carries an entry in the chronology where it marks a turning point in the case.
NWAG renews its objection as the Consortium lodges another application with WODC (22 June 2026). "The sole reason this new Application is tilted towards Active Travel England is not altruistic but in the hope that WEL will be removed because, as has always been the case, this SDA is not viable." Includes NWAG's glossary of planning terms. APP 2026 · CHRON 2026
"This is a huge response to the petition calling on West Oxfordshire District Council to reconsider the flawed North Witney development. It's also well past the tipping point of 1,500 signatures whereby WODC has to formally reconsider the development." CHRON 2021
Chairman Stuart Harrison argues the case for preserving the landscape of North Witney — the feature appeared in the Witney Gazette, The Oxford Times and Oxford Mail. See Exhibit C — Landscape.
"We seriously question why Taylor Wimpey have put in a planning application to develop the part of the North Witney SDA between Woodstock Road and New Yatt Road. Is their intention to cherry pick sites without making commitments to infrastructure improvements?" See Exhibit D — The development.
NWAG sets out questions that Cllr Toby Morris — Deputy Leader of WODC, Leader of Witney Town Council, and a North Witney representative — needs to answer about his account of the Planning Inspector's role.
NWAG's published letter: "our WODC councillors will be asked to vote on continuing the Local Plan along a path which, unless they have the courage and wisdom to do otherwise, could lead to the destruction of the Witney we know and love."
"We thought it would be a worthwhile reminder about just how bad the 2007 flooding in Witney was. The proposed North Witney development raises the prospect of worse flooding." Features NWAG's Witney Floods 2007 film. EA 2007
