COUNCILLORS have approved a controversial homes plan for South Oxfordshire.

The plan will see about 9,000 homes built in Didcot, 400 to the west of Wallingford, and 530 in Thame.

Twenty-five councillors voted for, and eight against, its core strategy document at a meeting of South Oxfordshire District Council last night.

Residents of towns and villages which will be affected by the development plans joined a protest at the council's offices in Crowmarsh Gifford, near Wallingford.