{"id":521769,"date":"2026-04-09T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521769\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:55:08","slug":"legal-challenge-to-oxford-united-stadium-plans-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521769\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal challenge to Oxford United stadium plans launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ricardo Gama, from the law firm Leigh Day is representing the group, and said his clients &#8220;felt they had no choice but to file court proceedings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They look forward to putting their arguments to a judge,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The campaign group has now launched judicial review proceedings in the High Court, having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cewz8xyv75wo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously launched a fundraiser to cover the legal costs of the appeal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cherwell District Council added in a statement that it was &#8220;confident in its decision and in the event of any judicial review will robustly defend its position&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Oxford United said: &#8220;A rigorous and detailed planning process was followed by Cherwell District Council, and we look forward to supporting them defend their decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Referencing the threat of a judicial review earlier this year, the club&#8217;s chairman Grant Ferguson said there were &#8220;different avenues&#8221; the club could take to fight the potential legal challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;We will make that decision when we really understand what the merits of the case are, or lack thereof, and how a court is likely to respond to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are pretty comfortable that we are ahead of the curve,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricardo Gama, from the law firm Leigh Day is representing the group, and said his clients &#8220;felt they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-521769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}