A retired judge's complaints about a giant slide in a playground opposite his home have been backed by planners.

Henley Town Council said the frame, at Rupert House School, should go. The planning committee agreed it was "unneighbourly, intrusive and out of character with the area".

But the decision on the retrospective planning application may go to South Oxfordshire District Council still needs to make a decision on the retrospective planning application and ahas the last word locally - and even after that the issue could go to appeal to the Department of the Environment. Sir Kenneth Jones, 77, protested about the new frame, after a small climbing frame at the school was taken down to be replaced with the current 18ft-high, 40ft-long slide without planning permission.

Children on it can see into his house in a nearby cul-de-sac.

A letter of complaint, read to the committee, said: "They can see anyone lying in bed or standing at the wash basin. Children are naturally inquisitive and the result is a wholly unacceptable intrusion."

No-one at the school would comment.

Sir Kenneth declined to comment after the meeting, saying everything was in the hands of the planners.

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