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1,500 HOMES PLAN FEARS CONCERNS were raised this week over plans to build up to 1,500 homes in the north east of Wantage. Developers Lands Improvement Holdings (LIH) submitted planning permission to Vale of White Horse perm District Council (VoWHDC) earlier Distr this month m to build on the Crab Hill site, which w straddles the boundaries between Wantage, Grove and Lockbetwe

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inge. As well as housing, they hope to build a primary school, a park, sports pitches and a community hub on the site. However, Julie Mabberley, of Wantage and Grove Campaign Group,

questioned the level of construction traffic it would create, with the planned Wantage Eastern Link relief road being a particular topic of concern. “The relief road won’t be built until the fi nal phase so we will have to put up with construction traffic on existing roads until 2022 at the earliest,” • Continued on page three


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