Footpath Diversions and Other Matters

Permission has been granted for the proposed wind farm at Fewcott, near the M40. An application for two more turbines at Oddington Grange close to FPs 1 and 2, which cross at the former abbey moat, has been withdrawn. We have just received a curious proposal for diversion at Uffington. Part of this is obviously to deal with an estate that was built long ago in the days when people regularly forgot to put in the required diversion; the rest diverts the path a few feet closer to the school, with the new path partly shown running along the top of the school fence, which could be painful.

The order at North Newington FP7 at Tythe Farm (moving the path from one side of the hedge to the other, out of the garden) has been confirmed.

The claims for a town green at Warneford Meadow, and a footpath continuing the dead-end at Lower Shiplake to the road, have been confirmed in the High Court, the parties having decided not to appeal further. Likewise the applicants at Mill Lane, Shiplake, have decided not to appeal against the ruling that it is a restricted byway rather than a byway open to all traffic (and is therefore barred to motor vehicles, except for access).

David Godfrey