A PLAN for a controversial £150m classic car museum and automotive park due to be discussed at a planning meeting this week was pulled.

The possibility of giving outline planning permission for The Driving Centre, which would be built at Enstone Airfield, was set to be discussed at West Oxfordshire District Council’s Uplands Area planning sub-committee on Monday.

But the report was withdrawn at the request of the applicant.

When the Oxford Mail reported the plan in February, it said the project would be spearheaded by Peter W. Mullin, an American classic car collector and philanthropist.

At the time, he said: “All my collection is European and this has become a once in a lifetime opportunity to bring them home.

“And where better than the epicentre of motorsport and car manufacturing in Britain.”

However there have been more than 250 objections to the plan from worried people living nearby, some of whom object to 28 holiday lodges proposed.

If built, the museum could include about 200 cars dating as far back as the 1920s and could create up to 100 jobs.

It remained unclear yesterday whether the plan has been simply deferred for a time for the current plan to altered and then submitted or whether it could be withdrawn entirely.

The plan appeared on the council’s planning portal as being under consideration.

To find the plan yourself, search 17/03745/OUT on WODC’s website, westoxon.gov.uk