PLAN to stop a new 241-home estate from flooding have been submitted for approval.
Housing developer Cala has sent in the plans for a new estate in Benson to South Oxfordshire District Council.
The company already has outline planning permission for the development in fields north of Littleworth Road, but as part of that approval it promised the council that it would come back with more detailed plans on how it would try to prevent flooding.
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Now it has submitted a nine-page document outlining its proposals, including a combination of 'ditches', 'ponds' and 'basins'.
It has also pledged that construction workers building the new homes will wear personal protective equipment (PPE) 'at all times'.
Members of public can browse the full set of plans themselves online at southoxon.gov.uk.
Search for planning application code P20/S2743/DIS.
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