Cherwell Local Plan Review 2042

Closes 14 Feb 2025

Opened 19 Dec 2024

Contact

Planning Policy Team

Planning.policy@cherwell-dc.gov.uk

Overview

We have prepared a new Local Plan for Cherwell District and would like your views before we submit it to the Secretary of State for independent examination.

All comments must be submitted by 11:59pm on Friday 14 February 2025.

The Local Plan will guide our decisions on planning applications and contribute to the achievement of sustainable development. It is a Plan to meet our development needs, to respond to climate change, to protect the environment and to support our local economy and communities.

The Plan sets out a vision and proposes homes, employment land, infrastructure and other essential services required to support the local community over the plan period.

In making your comments we would like you to consider whether the Plan is ‘sound’ and whether it complies with the necessary legal requirements for plan making. The Planning Inspectorate has produced a useful guide to making representations at this stage of the plan making process. The guide is available to view here

All representations received will be submitted to the Secretary of State for consideration as part of the Local Plan examination. We do not make significant changes to the Plan after we have received your comments. Instead they are considered by the appointed Planning Inspector.

STATEMENT FOLLOWING PUBLICATION OF THE REVISED  NATIONAL PLANNING POLICY FRAMEWORK (NPPF) ON  12 DECEMBER 2024

On 12 December 2024 the Government published a revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).

 The new NPPF includes transitional arrangements for local plans that are at an advanced stage like ours.

We are publishing this proposed submission (Regulation 19) Local Plan under the transitional arrangements set out in paragraph 234(a) of the revised NPPF.

In accordance with paragraph 234(a), the housing requirement in the Local Plan meets at least 80% of local housing need.

The local housing need figure, calculated in accordance with the Planning Practice Guidance published on 12 December 2024, is 1118 dwellings per year. The housing requirement in the Local Plan is 911 dwellings per year. That is 81.5% of the local housing need figure. Pursuant to paragraph 235, this will  mean that the Cherwell Local Plan Review 2042 will be examined under  the December 2023 version of the NPPF, which can be accessed here .

KEY CONSULTATION DOCUMENTS 

Supporting Evidence Documents

All relevant supporting evidence documents are available here 

Other Important Information

How to submit comments

You can submit comments in one of the following ways:

Your name and contact address (email or postal) are required and any comments received will be made publicly available.

If you have any questions about this consultation, or have any difficulty accessing documents, please email us at Planning.policy@cherwell-dc.gov.uk or phone us on 01295 221779.

Please make sure we receive your comments before midnight on 14 February 2025

 

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