Eye and Dunsden Neighbourhood Plan

Eye and Dunsden 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?

Eye and Dunsden Parish Council submitted their draft neighbourhood plan to South Oxfordshire District Council in October 2025.

The publicity period on the draft plan concluded on 27 January 2026. The draft plan documents and comments received during the publicity period have now been submitted for independent examination.

Following this publicity period, the government commenced Sections 98 & 99 of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023, resulting in the need for changes to be made to the Basic Conditions Statement and Neighbourhood Plan. A focused consultation on the updates made to these documents concluded in June 2026. The responses to this consultation were submitted to the independent examiner (Updated to include response from Gladman received on 17/08/26).

Andrew Ashcroft has been appointed by the District Council to carry out the examination. The examiner’s role is to make recommendations on the draft plan, and ultimately recommend if the plan should proceed to referendum. Take a look at the Examination Arrangements.

The examiner has issued a Clarification Note, setting out initial comments on the submitted plan and outlining areas where further clarification would be useful. The Parish Council have issued a response to the Clarification Note.

In response to representations made on the plan and the Clarification Note, the Parish Council produced an addendum to their Landscape Character Assessment. As this document introduces additional information on the policy approach taken in the Plan, the independent examiner asked the District Council to invite comments on the addendum.

We invited comments on the Landscape Character Assessment Addendum for a three week publicity period from 12 August 2026 to 3 September 2026. Comments will be published here shortly.

You can view the publicity documents below: