Garsington Neighbourhood Plan

Garsington 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?

Garsington Parish Council submitted their draft neighbourhood plan to South Oxfordshire District Council in February 2023.

South Oxfordshire District Council then carried out a consultation on the draft plan which concluded in June 2023. This gave the local community and statutory consultees an opportunity to comment on the draft plan. The draft plan documents and the comments received during the publicity period were published and submitted for examination.

The examiner issued a Clarification Note, which set out initial comments on the submitted plan and areas where further clarification would be helpful. Garsington Parish Council provided an initial response to the examiner’s Clarification Note.

In response to the issues raised in the Clarification Note, Garsington Parish Council has undertaken further work. As a result of that work, it now proposes modifications to the Plan. These include a modification of the proposed Settlement Boundary and the replacement of the Local Gaps policy (GARS4) with a Settlement Identity policy. A list of all significant modifications can be found in the Schedule of Modifications. The independent examiner advised that the significance of the Parish Council’s proposed modifications to the Plan triggered the need for a further round of consultation.

The district council therefore invited comments on these significant modifications in a consultation which ran until Wednesday, 27 March 2024.  Comments related to these modifications have 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 modified neighbourhood plan and supporting documents below:

• Neighbourhood Plan (Modified Version)
• Schedule of Modifications
• Neighbourhood Plan (Submission Version)
• Consultation Statement
• Basic Conditions Statement
• Appendix A_Surveys
• Appendix B_SOHA
• Appendix C_Village History
• Appendix D_Community Facilities and Social Groups
• Appendix _E_Definition of Affordable Housing
• Appendix F_Housing Needs Survey Report
• Appendix G_A Character Study
• Appendix H_Housing Needs Assessment
• SEA Screening Statement
• Area Designation Map
• Area Designation Letter
• Examination Arrangements

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.