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Joint Local Plan hearings

Published Monday 2 June 2025

The public hearings for the South and Vale Joint Local Plan start this week.

This stage of the examination involves our appointed Planning Inspectors (Inspectors R A Bust and C Mulloy) holding hearing sessions to hear from the Councils and other participants about whether the local plan is sound and has been prepared in accordance with legal and procedural requirements.

The dates and the topics covered are as follows:

  • Tuesday 3 June 2025: Matter 1 – Procedural and Legal Requirements followed by Matter 2 – The Duty to Co-operate
  • Wednesday 4 June 2025: Matter 3 – The Housing Target/Requirement
  • Thursday 5 June 2025: Matter 4 – The Employment Land Requirement

Sessions will commence at 9:30am unless detailed otherwise on the Examination website.

All the hearing sessions will be held at Bee House on Milton Park, OX14 4SB. The hearing sessions will be held in public and anyone can attend in person to watch (subject to capacity at the venue).

Livestream

The sessions will also be available to watch online via a livestream from Bee House via this link:

www.youtube.com/@SVCommsBusiness

Our Joint Local Plan examination webpage contains all the details produced by the Inspectors, including Guidance Notes (ID03) and a Hearings Programme (ID04 V3).