AIRPORT bosses should have been consulted ahead of plans to build up to 1,500 homes east of Woodstock, a resident told councillors yesterday.

Sharone Parnes asked West Oxfordshire District Council members why the authority had not formally involved Oxford Airport in a public consultation.

This was during an exercise to garner opinions by the developers of the homes and other applications in the area.

But he was told the council had met its legal obligations and it had no intention of consulting the airport right now.

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Mr Parnes told the Oxford Mail: “It’s disappointing because the airport operates in the flight path over the development sites.

“It should be done as a courtesy to the people likely to live in the proposed dwellings and the pilots operating aircraft.

“The airport is so close to the boundary and the potential impacts like noise are so obvious I’m surprised the council hasn’t consulted with it.”

In a statement read out at the meeting, Mr Parnes said the airport should have a say on the plans by Pye Homes and West Waddy ADP to develop land between the A44 Oxford Road and Shipton Road, next to the airport.

He added that it could also be affected by other applications, including a 58-home estate next to Marlborough School approved in May and a proposal by Old Woodstock Town FC for six floodlights at its New Road ground.

But development control committee chairman Jeff Haines told the meeting the airport had been consulted by Cherwell District Council, which covers some of the housing site east of Woodstock.

 

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