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Beckley and Stowood Neighbourhood Plan

Beckley and Stowood Parish Council is working on creating a neighbourhood plan to influence the way their area grows and develops into the future.

What’s happening now?

Beckley and Stowood Parish Council submitted their draft neighbourhood plan to South Oxfordshire District Council in February 2023.

We carried out a consultation on the draft neighbourhood plan and supporting documents in March 2023. This gave residents and statutory consultees an opportunity to comment on the draft plan. The responses to the March 2023 consultation were published and submitted for examination.

The Independent Examiner advised the District Council that a package of modifications is required to the Plan to ensure that it meets the basic conditions. The recommended modifications to the mitigation policies relating to the development of the strategic site at land north of Bayswater Brook (allocated for development under Policy STRAT13 of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2035) are significant in their scale and effect. As such they required further consultation.

The district council ran a consultation on these recommended modifications until Thursday, 29 February 2024.  Comments received during the publicity period have now been submitted to the independent examiner. The examiner’s role is to make recommendations on the draft plan, and ultimately recommend if the plan should proceed to referendum.

You can view the neighbourhood plan and supporting documents below:

More information on the process is available on our Neighbourhood Planning Resources page.

If you would like to discuss neighbourhood planning with a member of the team, please contact us.