PLANS for 300 homes are due to be refused tonight, partly because balls from a neighbouring golf club could strike properties.
Cherwell District Council’s Tracey Morrissey has urged councillors reject the plan for up to 300 homes west of Warwick Road, between North Oxfordshire Academy and Drayton Leisure Golf Centre.
She said it had not been shown a proposed 20m net would “not have adverse landscape effects or would mitigate completely the chance of ball escape”.
Mayor of Banbury and golf club leaseholder Nicholas Turner said danger from balls “would force us to close the golf range on health and safety grounds”.
The officer said Miller Homes’ plan, including a small supermarket, is not in any council schemes for where future estates should go.
Councillors approved plans for up to 350 homes on the other side of Warwick Road, north of Dukes Meadow Drive, in June.
The committee meets in public from 4pm at Bodicote House, White Post Road, Bodicote.
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