Witney Gazette August 2014. WODC vows to fight the study showing that the area should build 13,000. The council in August 2014 was still updating its local plan and that has left the whole area open to speculators to build large estates in areas that are known by locals to flood and where local doctors' surgeries are already so full it can take 3 weeks to get an appointment. There is far more detail in the article.
Councillors across the political spectrum at West Oxfordshire District Council have agreed that changes to the planning system are not suitable for West Oxfordshire.
Toby Morris, councillor for Resources wants locals to fill in the on-line consultation. Government funding is to be cut by £0.75m and there will be a rise in the cost of waste and recycling by £0.8m.
Newspaper cutting from Witney Gazette reporting on WODC savings in 2013-14. Conservative run council is to share services with Cotswold District Council
Copy of February 2023 edition of WODC Voice reporting back to residents on your council. Articles on Cost of living Crisis, Climate Crisis, Waterways, Recycling, Affordable Housing, Mental Health, Food Banks etc
Newspaper article in Witney Gazette May 11th 2022. The Tories lost control of West Oxfordshire after 22 years and there is Liberal-Labour-Green coalition
Witney Gazette May 28th 2014.The Campaign to Protect Rural England says the assessed need to build 100,000 new homes in the next 15 years was "cobbled together" and is exaggerated.