Agenda item

The Salt Cross Garden Village Area Action Plan (AAP) was formally published in August 2020 and submitted for independent examination in February 2021 with examination hearing sessions held in June/July 2021. Subsequently the examination was paused to enable the District Council to undertake further work on the phasing of essential infrastructure. Consultation on that additional work took place in March/April 2022 and on the 26 May 2022, the Inspectors wrote to West Oxfordshire District Council to confirm that the AAP can be made sound through a number of changes known as ‘Main Modifications’.

West Oxfordshire District Council has therefore prepared a series of proposed Main Modifications (MMs) to the AAP and these have been published for a statutory 6-week period of consultation from Friday 23 September until Friday 4 November 2022.

Please click on the links provided in the WODC correspondence to view the modifications, and consider a response, if appropriate.

The committee received and considered the correspondence from West Oxfordshire District Council (WODC) regarding the proposed main modifications to the Salt Cross Garden Village Plan.

Members were disappointed to see that the plans had been diluted and would now not deliver the same Carbon Neutral aims as the original plan. Members agreed to explore the proposal in greater detail and discuss further at the meeting of Climate Biodiversity and Planning Committee on 25 October 2022.

Members of this Committee who held a District Council seat were reminded  they could respond in each capacity as an elected representative on each Authority.

Resolved:

That, Members will continue discussions further at the next meeting of this Committee on 25October 2022