The decision to reverse Burford’s lorry ban trial will be reviewed.

Oxfordshire County Council has confirmed the decision has been suspended following a challenge from Burford Town Council.

The measure to stop lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes driving through parts of Burford was introduced in August 2020.

Residents wanted the measure to continue but others in nearby towns and villages, including Witney, said they had been adversely affected by offset traffic while hauliers said it badly damaged their businesses.

The council's cabinet member for travel and development strategy, Duncan Enright, revoked the experimental traffic regulation order at a meeting last Wednesday.

Cllr Enright said criteria set by Oxfordshire county council at the start of the trial, to measure its success, had not been met.

It was scheduled to end on 5 February.

Fourteen county councillors were concerned by the decision.

It has now been 'called in' for consideration by scrutiny.

A spokesman for OCC said: “I can confirm that the Cabinet Member’s decision to reverse the lorry ban through Burford has been Called In. This was supported by 14 Oxfordshire County Council councillors.

“The Cabinet Member’s decision to reverse the ban has been suspended pending a review by the Place Overview and Scrutiny Committee, which will consider whether to refer the matter back to Cabinet for reconsideration.”

The day after the trial was revoked Burford Town Council vowed to do all they could to get the decision reversed.

Councillor John White said: “There was a general feeling that we had been stitched up and a resolve to take all necessary steps to have the decision overturned."

Burford Town Council said the grounds for their appeal were that data from Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras, recording the number and types of vehicle going through five strategic sites around the town, was ignored.

And not enough consideration was given to the vastly improved air quality resulting from the weight limit.

The county council said instead of they ban it would look to introduce a countywide freight scheme.

Cllr White said: “BTC continues to support the proposal to seek a regional solution but is not prepared to see the town rumbled to death in the five to 10 years it will take to put an enforceable regional solution in place.”