A group of environmental campaigners has launched a legal challenge to plans recently agreed by South Oxfordshire council for construction of more than 23,000 homes over the next 15 years.

The residents’ group, calling itself the Bioabundance Community Interest Company, said it was challenging the council’s recently adopted local plan, approved under pressure from housing secretary Robert Jenrick, on the grounds that it did not adequately consider the effect of the housing on climate change.