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Cherwell Local Plan Review 2040
Cherwell District Council has prepared a new Local Plan for Cherwell District and would like your views before we submit it to the Secretary of State for independent examination.
All comments must be submitted by 11:59pm on Friday 14 February 2025.
The Local Plan will guide our decisions on planning applications and contribute to the achievement of sustainable development. It is a Plan to meet our development needs, to respond to climate change, to protect the environment and to support our local economy and communities.
In making your comments we would like you to consider whether the Plan is ‘sound’ and whether it complies with the necessary legal requirements for plan making. The Planning Inspectorate has produced a useful guide to making representations at this stage of the plan making process.
Link to Cherwell Local Plan Review 2040
Commenting on Planning Applications
All comments (including objections) received will be taken into account when considering the application. The comments we receive cannot be confidential. All letters of objection/support become part of the application’s case file, which will be published online.
The nature of your comments must be relevant both to planning and to the application in question.
Only material planning considerations can be taken into account for the purpose of determining a planning application.
Material considerations can include (but are not limited to):
- Design, appearance and materials
- Overlooking/loss of privacy
- Loss of light or overshadowing
- Parking provision
- Highway safety
- Traffic congestion
- Effect on listed buildings and conservation areas
- Environmental pollution e.g. noise, odour, dust, smoke etc
- Drainage and flood risk
- Landscape impact
- Nature conservation
- Impact on trees
- Allocated development sites identified in the Local Development Plan and or Neighbourhood Development Plans
- Government policy and guidance
- Previous planning decisions (including appeal decisions)
However, whilst they may be important to you, there are matters that are not material considerations and cannot be considered when determining an application. These include:
- The applicant’s background
- Loss of views
- Loss of property value
- Maintenance of property
- Boundary disputes, covenants or other property rights
- Private rights of way
- Loss of trade or increased competition
25/00945/NMA - 3 Greenside Cottages Somerton Road North Aston Oxfordshire OX25 6HU
Date: 16/04/2025
Summary: Change of material from combed-wheat straw to water reed (proposed as non-material amendment to 23/03026/F)
25/00766/F - Leycroft Barn Somerton Road Souldern Bicester OX27 7JX
Date: 24/03/2025
Summary: Agricultural building to create a covered spray area
25/00765/F - Leycroft Barn Somerton Road Souldern Bicester OX27 7JX
Date: 24/03/2025
Summary: Agricultural building to cover a muck storage area
25/00064/TCA - 1 The Three Horseshoes Somerton Road Upper Heyford OX25 5JU
Date: 13/01/2025
Summary: Silver Birch, growing in close proximity to the neighbouring residence and shading the small garden, Crown reduce by approximately 2.5m and reshape.
24/03384/LB - Rosemary Cottage Somerton Road North Aston Oxfordshire OX25 6HX
Date: 20//12/2024
Summary: Replacement of modern windows with new timber 12mm heritage double glazed
24/03251/AGN - Leycroft Barn Somerton Road Souldern OX27 7JX
Date: 04/12/2024
Summary: Prior approval application - agricultural building to create a covered spray area
24/03316/F - 1 Adams Cottages Heyford Road Somerton Bicester OX25 6LJ
Date: 12/12/2024
Summary: Single storey rear extension. Internal refurbishment and replacement windows. Solar panel installation
24/03308/TCA_5 - Field Parcel Somerton Road Ardley
Date: 10/12/2024
Summary: Five Say Notice T1-T2 only Sycamore -Fell Subsequent failure of largest Sycamore within the group, providing shelter companion, T1 & T2 now over exposed A-symmetrical crown form, heavy lean towards Pr
24/03096/Q56 - Barns Adjacent Oakwood House Fritwell Road Somerton
Date: 22/11/2024
Summary: Prior approval application under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO for conversion of an existing agricultural barn to a total of 10 no residential dwellinghouses
Response: More information via this link https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24768255.plans-oxfordshire-barn-converted-10-new-homes/
24/02878/TCA - The Old Rectory Church Street Somerton
Date: 29/11/2024
Summary: T1 Pine - Carefully sectional dismantle and fell to ground level. Having discussed with our surveyors here at Nicholson’s, we’ve concluded that as the Corsican Pine is already in decline (and due to t
24/03316/F - 1 Adams Cottages Heyford Road Somerton Bicester OX25 6LJ
Date: 12/12/2024
Summary: Single storey rear extension. Internal refurbishment and replacement windows. Solar panel installation
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