Sir, Anyone could be forgiven for getting confused between the Local Plan and the Wantage Neighbourhood Plan. In fact, the so-called Local Plan relates to the whole area of the Vale district council and to a considerable extent to Oxfordshire as a whole. It is this Local Plan which threatens to have a most dramatic impact on our neighbourhood.

The district council has now published the final version of the Plan which will be implemented subject only to the approval of the Government planning inspector. It runs to at least 1,000 pages in multiple documents and very few people will have been able to read and analyse all of this.

Fortunately, our campaign manager, Julie Mabberley, is one of these few and will be sharing her findings at a public meeting at The Beacon on November 19 at 7pm. At that meeting it will also be possible for people to register their views for submission to the Inspector. We are now at the last stage before the impending and much-feared expansion of Wantage, Grove and district.

Geoff Rice

Chairman

Wantage and Grove Campaign Group