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Oxfordshire pulls plug on transport modelling of eco-town plan
Oxfordshire County Council said this week it will not participate in any more work on "fairytale" plans for an eco-town at Weston Otmoor until the promoter pays a bill of £100,000 for transport modelling work.
Oxfordshire's leader Keith Mitchell said Parkridge had gone back on its pledge to pay for the work on the transport implications of the town beside junction 9 of the M40, the A34 intersection (LTT 25 Jul).
"These developers have been shifting the goalposts on an almost weekly basis," said Mitchell. "As one set of pie-in-the-sky fairytale plans is shown to be a superficial sham, another appears - and proves to be equally appalling.
"The developers said at the outset that they would pay for the huge amount of work undertaken on their behalf to analyse the details of this proposal. Having made that promise, we were stunned to hear that they have gone back on it," said Mitchell.
"Parkridge seems to have more newly updated sets of plans to throw around than most people have hot dinners. Their chaotic approach creates spiralling work and costs in terms of time as well as money for ourselves and Cherwell District Council."
Parkridge has proposed a road charging scheme to limit traffic levels from the town.
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