Homeowners fear their sleepy village is being turned into a ‘metropolis’ surrounded by new-build housing estates after a series of controversial plans were lodged with the council.
Neighbours in Lower Shiplake, near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, say the influx of properties is ruining the countryside, clogging up already busy roads and threatening to overwhelm the local primary school.
Fears centre on plans for 84 homes that won planning permission despite being proposed on land above an aquifer that supplies drinking water to 50,000 people.
As part of the proposals, Taylor Wimpey developers will drill holes in land at Thames Farm and inject them with concrete to
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