Decision details

Wokingham Borough Council response to the South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2011-2033

Decision Maker: Executive Member for Strategic Highways and Planning- David Lee

Decision status: For Determination

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

Purpose: To provide a response to Oxford District Council to their consultation on the Local Plan 2011-2033 – Final Publication version.

Decision:

That the Executive Member for Strategic Planning and Highways agrees that Wokingham Borough Council submits the attached appendices as formal responses to the plan which:

 

1)    Object to the plan on the basis of soundness in relation to:

 

a)    The omission of a safeguarded route for a new Thames Crossing within the plan;

 

2)    Support South Oxfordshire District Council’s commitment to plan for its own housing need in full.

 

3)    Support SODC’s commitment to meeting a proportion of Oxford City Council’s (OCC) unmet housing need as well as its commitment to an early review of this plan, which will ensure that the scale of OCC’s unmet need, which will be quantified within a future local plan of its own, is fully met within the Housing Market Area.

 

Wards Affected: None Specific;

Declarations: None

Dispensations: None

Reference Number: IMD 2018/02

Consultees

http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/planning-and-building/planning-policy/emerging-local-plan.
Two separate consultation response forms for the topics of housing and transport respectively (to be appended to the IEMD report)

Contact: James McCabe Email: james.mccabe@wokingham.gov.uk Tel: 0118 908 8333.

Report author: James McCabe

Publication date: 10/01/2018

Date of decision: 10/01/2018

Decided at meeting: 10/01/2018 - Executive - Individual Member Decisions

Effective from: 19/01/2018

Accompanying Documents: