[Community] Fwd: Vale of White Horse Local Plan 2031 Part One Publication

[John Storrs]

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Subject: 	Vale of White Horse Local Plan 2031 Part One Publication
Date: 	Fri, 7 Nov 2014 15:14:02 +0000
From: 	<planning.policy at whitehorsedc.gov.uk>
To: 	Planning Policy Vale <planning.policy at whitehorsedc.gov.uk>



Dear Sir or Madam

*Public Consultation:*

**

 1. *Vale of White Horse LOCAL PLAN 2031 PART 1*
 2. *Design Guide Review *
 3. *Community Infrastructure Levy Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule *

Vale of White Horse District Council invites you to comment on three 
consultation documents running from *7 November 2014**to 19 December 
2014 closing at 4.30 pm precisely*.

*1, The Local Plan 2031 Part One: Strategic Sites and Policies*looks at 
strategic planning across the Vale up until 2031.The plan provides 
guidance on the provision of land for 23,000 new jobs and plans for 
20,560 new homes in the district from 2011 to 2031.Along with what 
infrastructure will be needed to support this growth.The plan focuses 
growth within Science Vale and reinforces the roles of the main towns, 
whilst promotes thriving villages and rural communities.This is the 
*final publication *of the plan before submission to the Secretary of State.

*2. The Vale of White Horse Design Guide Review*provides guidance to 
decision makers and those wishing to develop housing on the rules we 
will use to assess high quality, well designed homes and neighbourhoods 
in our district.This is so we create successful places that people want 
to live and work in.This document is a Supplementary Planning Document 
that will form part of our suite of planning policy documents.

*3. The Vale of White Horse Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) – 
Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule*stage is the first of two 
consultations on the charging schedule.CIL is a mechanism that we can 
use to raise funds from new development to provide infrastructure which 
is required to support the new development across our district.

**

**

*How to comment*

Comments on any of the consultations must be received within the 
consultation timeframe given.You can view an electronic copy of the 
local plan and supporting evidence by visiting 
www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/lpp1 <http://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/lpp1>.You 
can view an electronic copy of the Design Guide by visiting 
www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/design 
<http://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/design>.You can view an electronic copy 
of the preliminary draft charging schedule by visiting 
www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/cil <http://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/cil>. All 
documents will be available to view at the District Council Offices, 
Abbey House, Abbey Close, Abingdon, OX14 3JE and all libraries across 
the district during normal office hours.We encourage those responding to 
the Local Plan to use the standard response forms found online, at 
council offices or libraries across the district.Responses to all 
consultation can be made electronically using the consultation system 
found on our website (registration is needed), via e-mail 
toplanning.policy at whitehorsedc.gov.uk 
<mailto:planning.policy at whitehorsedc.gov.uk>or via post to Planning 
Policy, Vale of White Horse District, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford, 
OX10 8ED, clearly stating which consultation you are responding to.All 
representations received will be available to the public to 
view.Representations received as part of the local plan will be 
submitted to the Secretary of State.

*Local Plan public meetings*

To support the publication process of the local plan we have provided 
the following public meetings, which you are invited to.Details are below:

*Location*

	

*Date (2014)*

	

*Time*

*Abingdon Guildhall (The Abbey Hall)*

**

	

Wednesday 19 November

	

6-8pm

*Wantage The Beacon (The Ridgeway room)*

	

Friday 21 November

	

6-8pm

*De Vere, Milton Hill House*

	

Thursday 27 November

	

6-8pm

*Faringdon – Corn Exchange *

	

Tuesday 2 December

	

6-8pm

*Notification*

For the local plan you may also state in your response if you would like 
to be notified about the submission of the plan to the Secretary of 
State, any recommendation resulting from an independent examination and 
finally whether the local plan is adopted.

If you have any queries or problems accessing this information, please 
contact the Planning Policy Team on 01235 540 347.

Yours faithfully,

Scott Riley

Planning Policy


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VALE OF WHITE HORSE DISTRICT COUNCIL STATEMENT OF REPRESENTATIONS 
PROCEDURE – Vale of White Horse Local Plan 2031 Part One, Design Guide 
Consultation and Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule consultation

*Title of consultations *

Vale of White Horse Local Plan 2031 Part One – publication stage

Vale of White Horse Design Guide Review – consultation stage

Vale of White Horse Community Infrastructure Levy – Preliminary Draft 
Charging Schedule stage

*Subject matter and area*

Vale of White Horse Local Plan 2031 Part One

This document covers strategic planning for the Vale up until the year 
2031.It looks to plan for 20,560 new homes and 23,000 new jobs.Along 
with what infrastructure will be needed to support this growth.The plan 
focuses growth within Science Vale and reinforces the roles of the main 
towns, whilst promotes thriving villages and rural communities.This is 
the final consultation before submission of the plan to the Secretary of 
State.

Vale of White Horse Design Guide Review

This document provides guidance to decision makers and those wishing to 
develop housing on the rules we will use to assess high quality, well 
designed homes and neighbourhoods in our district.This is so we create 
successful places that people want to live and work in.This document is 
a Supplementary Planning Document that will form part of our planning 
policy suite of documents.

Vale of White Horse Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) – Preliminary 
Draft Charging Schedule stage

This is an additional way that we can choose to charge for new 
development in our area to help fund infrastructure.The charging 
schedule sets out the proposed charging rates for development taking 
place in the Vale of White Horse.This is the first stage of consultation 
on the proposed charging schedule.

*Consultation timeframe and viewing documents*

All three consultations last a period of six weeks running from the 7 
November to 19 December 2014 closing by 4.30 pm 
precisely.Representations must be received within this time period.You 
can view an electronic copy of the local plan and supporting evidence by 
visiting www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/lpp1 
<http://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/lpp1>.You can view an electronic copy of 
the Design Guide by visiting 
www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/design<http://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/design>.You can 
view an electronic copy of the preliminary draft charging schedule by 
visiting www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/cil 
<http://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/cil>.All documents will be available to 
view at the District Council Offices, Abbey House, Abbey Close, 
Abingdon, OX14 3JE and all libraries across the district (Abingdon, 
Botley, Faringdon, Grove, Kennington, Wantage and including Oxford 
Brookes, Oxford and Didcot) during normal office hours.

*How to comment*

Comments received on the design guide and CIL will be used to inform the 
development of each respective document.We encourage those responding to 
the Local Plan to use the standard response forms found online, at 
council offices or libraries across the district.Responses can be made 
electronically using our consultation system found online (registration 
required), via email to planning.policy at whitehorsedc.gov.uk 
<mailto:planning.policy at whitehorsedc.gov.uk>or via post to Planning 
Policy, Vale of White Horse District, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford, 
OX10 8ED, clearly stating which consultation you are responding to.All 
representations received will be available to the public to 
view.Representations received as part of the local plan will be 
submitted to the Secretary of State.

*Notification*

For the local plan you may also state in your response if you would like 
to be notified about the submission of the plan to the Secretary of 
State, any recommendation resulting from an independent examination and 
finally whether the local plan is adopted.


Planning Policy
Vale of White Horse District Council
Tel: 01235 540499
Text phone users add 18001 before you dial land line number
Visit us at www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk <http://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/>


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