Decision details
West Oxfordshire Local Plan 2041 – Regulation 18 Pre-Submission Draft Consultation
Decision Maker: Executive
Decision status: Recommendations Approved (subject to call-in)
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Decisions:
Councillor Hugo Ashton, Executive Member for Planning, introduced the item, the purpose of which was to provide an update on the emerging draft West Oxfordshire Local Plan 2041, including the Regulation 18 ‘preferred options’ public consultation which was scheduled to begin in May 2025. Councillor Ashton reiterated that this item was an update and not a draft Local Plan, which would be completed in October. However, it was noted that the emerging plan had a much stronger focus than the Local Plan 2031 (adopted in 2018) on the following areas: mitigating climate change, tackling the ecological emergency, investment in infrastructure, focus on community health and wellbeing, water environment, reducing reliance on the private car, increasing the use of public transport and a provision for a Carterton to Oxford railway line. The next step would be the presentation of the preferred options consultation paper to the Executive on 14 May 2025. The consultation period would begin in late May and last through June. It was explained that there would be a presentation on this with the opportunity to ask questions following the meeting.
Councillor Hugo Ashton, Executive Member for Planning, proposed accepting the recommendations of the report.
Councillor Andy Graham, Leader of the Council, seconded the recommendations
RESOLVED:
That the Executive:
1. Note the content of the report including the implications of the updated NPPF published in December 2024 and the intention to defer consideration of the Local Plan preferred option consultation paper until May 2025.
2. Agree that a minor addendum to the Council’s published Local Development Scheme (LDS) – November 2024 be published to reflect the fact that the Local Plan 2041 preferred options consultation paper will now be considered by the Council’s Executive in May 2025 with public consultation to begin in late May 2025.
Report author: Chris Hargraves
Publication date: 13/03/2025
Date of decision: 12/03/2025
Decided at meeting: 12/03/2025 - Executive
Date comes into force if not called in: 21/03/2025
Call-in deadline date: 20/03/2025
Current call-in Count: 0
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