NEW YORK: The four hundred and seventy-third entry for the seniors housing Global Awards 2016 has been received.
Controversial plans for 53 homes for the elderly and disabled in Henley were approved last night.
South Oxfordshire District Council granted McCarthy & Stone permission to build the “assisted living” flats at the site of the former Jet petrol station in Reading Road.
Felix Bloomfield, who chairs the committee, used his casting vote to approve the application after members were split equally.
Henley councillor David Nimmo Smith was not allowed to vote as he chaired the town council’s planning committee, which had recommended refusal.
The decision will be seen as being contrary to the joint Henley and Harpsden neighbourhood plan, which earmarked the site for 55 ordinary homes, 40 per cent of them “affordable”…
