Issue - meetings
West Oxfordshire Local Plan 2041
Meeting: 04/06/2025 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 15)
15 West Oxfordshire Local Plan 2041 
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Purpose
To consider the Local Plan 2041 Preferred Policy Options Consultation Paper which is proposed to be published for consultation in accordance with Regulation 18 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012. This item will be considered by the Executive on 11 June 2025.
Recommendation
That the Overview and Scrutiny Committee resolves to:
1. Note the report and agree any recommendations it wishes to submit to the Executive.
Additional documents:
- Annex A - Draft Preferred Options Paper May 2025, item 15
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- Annex B - Summary Overview of Draft Development Management Policies, item 15
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- Preferred Policy Options - Schedule of Proposed Minor Changes 10 June 2025, item 15
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- Webcast for West Oxfordshire Local Plan 2041
Minutes:
The Executive Member for Planning introduced the Local Plan 2041 Preferred Policy Options Consultation Paper report, stating that site allocations would be considered in the coming months. This was not a draft Local Plan, rather a set of policies on which the Council wanted to receive feedback from members, the public, town and parish councils, site promoters and others. The Local Plan Working Group had considered the proposals over a series of meetings and there had been two all-member briefing sessions held. The Executive Member extended his thanks to the planning team during what had been a particularly busy period.
The Committee considered the report page by page, asked questions and made a number of suggestions.
The Committee’s list of suggestions is included as an annex to these minutes.
The Executive Member thanked the Committee for its input and said that the preferred sites would be coming forward to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee and the Executive in August or September 2025.
The Committee thanked the Executive Member, officers and the Local Plan Working Group for all their work.
RESOLVED: The Committee
- NOTED the report.
- RECOMMENDED to the Executive to include the suggested amendments contained within the Annex be included in the final version West Oxfordshire Local Plan 2041.