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 The Government published the South East Plan on 6 May 2009.  It is a Regional Spatial Strategy, and it establishes the Government’s planning and transport policy for the south east of England until the year 2026. It sets the strategic planning framework for the district and forms part of the development plan, together with the development plan documents in our South Oxfordshire Local Development Framework and the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Framework.

The South East Plan replaces the Government’s Regional Planning Guidance for the South East (RPG9) and the Oxfordshire Structure Plan.

You can view the South East Plan here.

The South East Plan contains nine sub-regional strategy areas, one of which contains land within South Oxfordshire.  The Central Oxfordshire sub-region covers a large part of the district, encompassing much of the Oxford Green Belt and land south to Didcot and beyond. 

The South East Plan requires that we plan for 10,940 new dwellings in South Oxfordshire district between 2006 and 2026. This includes 8,240 in the Central Oxfordshire sub-region, of which 6,000 are to be located at Didcot (with a further 2,750 at Didcot on land within the Vale of White Horse district).

The Council has issued a High Court challenge to the South East Plan objecting to the inclusion of an additional 4,000 dwellings land in the green belt south of Oxford.  For more information click here.