At it’s meeting yesterday the Strategic Development Committee of AVDC voted unanimously to refuse the application for the Winslow Green Development.  A string of speakers representing local councils, special interest groups and local residents condemmed the application on a wide range of grounds with only the developers Agent speaking in favour. This was followed by all but one of the Committee speaking on the subject and all of them were opposed.

Commenting after the meeting Cllr Llew Monger, who had addressed the committtee on behalf of Winslow Town Council, said ”This was the perfect result today and shows the power of public involvement. Over 1000 people have written to object and over 700 attended public meetings during the build-up to to today.  However, whilst we have won this battle the war is probably going to continue. The developers have six months in which to register an appeal and in the past they have indicated that that is just what they will do. We will now have to turn our attention to other possible applications for large local developments while we wait to hear what the Winslow Green people intend to do.”