A decision on whether to allow a disabled pensioner to keep her plastic front door has been deferred.
Cherwell District Council discussed the plans last Thursday but delayed a final decision because members of the planning committee wanted to see more detailed designs.
Retired Oxford University professor Alison Brading, 68, above, of Canal Road, Thrupp, who suffered from polio as a child and now uses a wheelchair, sparked controversy in 2001 after replacing the wooden front door on her listed cottage because it swelled in the rain and she did not have the strength to open it.
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