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To:                              Future Oxfordshire Partnership Scrutiny Panel (formerly Oxfordshire Growth Board Scrutiny Panel)

Title of Report:        Draft Scrutiny Panel response to Oxfordshire Plan 2050 Regulation 18 Part 2 Consultation

Date:                         13 September 2021

Report of:                 Councillor Andrew Gant, Chair of the Future Oxfordshire Partnership Scrutiny Panel

Status:                       Open

Executive Summary and Purpose: This report provides a draft response (Appendix 1) to the Oxfordshire Plan 2050 Regulation 18 Part 2 Consultation, produced by a working group of four members from the Scrutiny Panel. The Scrutiny Panel is asked to agree the response for submission, subject to any revisions. How this report contributes to the Oxfordshire Strategic Vision Outcomes: The Oxfordshire Plan 2050 plays a key part of the delivery of the Strategic Vision for Oxfordshire by setting key policies for Oxfordshire that support the outcomes set out in the Vision. Recommendation: That, subject to any revisions agreed at this meeting, the Scrutiny Panel agrees to submit the draft response attached at Appendix 1 to the Oxfordshire Plan 2050 Regulation 18 Part 2 consultation. Appendices: Appendix 1: Draft Scrutiny Panel response to Oxfordshire Plan 2050 Regulation 18 Part 2 consultation.

Introduction and background

 

1.     On 12 July 2021, the Future Oxfordshire Partnership Scrutiny Panel (formerly the Oxfordshire Growth Board Scrutiny Panel) agreed to establish a working group to develop a draft response to the Oxfordshire Plan 2050 Regulation 18 Part 2 Consultation, which closes on 8 October 2021. Appendix 1 features the draft response prepared by the working group for consideration and approval to submit the response.

 

2.     The Oxfordshire Plan 2050 Regulation 18 Part 2 Consultation Document was approved for public consultation by each of Oxfordshire’s five local planning authorities in July 2021. The document sets out both a range of planning policy options and a series of spatial strategy options for Oxfordshire. When complete, the Oxfordshire Plan will provide a high-level spatial planning framework for Oxfordshire up to 2050 and will be a statutory planning document supplementing Local Plans. A full introductory report to the Oxfordshire Plan consultation can be found online in the agenda pack for the Growth Board’s meeting on 19 July 2021.[1]

 

Working Group Membership

 

3.    The Scrutiny Panel working group which prepared the draft response consisted of the following councillors:

·         Councillor Andrew Gant, Chair of the Panel (Oxfordshire County Council)

·         Councillor Sean Woodcock, Vice-Chair of the Panel (Cherwell District Council)

·         Councillor Adam Nell (Cherwell District Council)

·         Councillor Victoria Haval (South Oxfordshire District Council)

 

 

Report Author: Councillor Andrew Gant, Chair of the Future Oxfordshire Partnership Scrutiny Panel.

 

 


[1] Available here: https://www.oxfordshiregrowthboard.org/past-meetings/?past-year=2021