Announcements

Witney Infrastructure Neighbourhood Group

Crawley PC has been following proposals to build up to 1400 new houses in North Witney with concerns about the impact that this may have on our village. We produced reports that we could submit to the planning department in WODC if a formal planning application was submitted for North Witney housing. Our reports were published on the Crawley Village website, and you may already have read them.

The North Witney housing area lies within Hailey Parish and has been designated as a Strategic Development Area (SDA) in the Local Plan. We therefore contacted Hailey PC to make them aware of the Crawley reports and consider if we could work with Hailey to generate a combined response from several local councils. This has led to the creation of a collaboration group with ten parishes being represented. We’ve adopted the name WING (Witney Infrastructure Neighbourhood Group).

With representatives from all ten parishes, WING has produced a ‘best fit’ position of what we want to happen if this housing development gets permission to proceed. We believe that a single submission from ten affected parishes will carry more weight than could be achieved by separate submissions from individual parishes.

WING has produced a report that sets out four main challenges. These are to ensure:

  • Construction of the West End Link (WEL)
  • Construction of Northern Distributor Road (NDR)
  • Flood Prevention Measures through the Windrush Valley
  • Community infrastructure as part of the North Witney housing scheme

You can read the report here or find it on the WING website.

All the supporting parishes (including Crawley) have been asked to consult with their residents to confirm opinions (hopefully positive ones) on the overall approach that WING has set out in their report. Crawley PC will make a resolution in September to send to the WING committee to confirm Crawley’s views.

Please make time to read the WING report and feedback your comments to any member of Crawley PC so that we can incorporate these in our formal response to WING. Thank you for your help.

WING Website

WING Full Report (Issue v2)