Issue - meetings

The committee considered the community governance review CGR-C, on a proposal to amend the parish boundary east of Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor to include land currently in Fyfield and Tubney parish. 

Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor Parish Council had requested the boundary change.  This was opposed by Fyfield and Tubney Parish Council. 

Officers recommended that no change was made to the current boundary. 

The committee agreed with the officer’s recommendation.  Whilst the land in question was included in the Local Plan as an allocated housing site, a recent application for housing on that site had been refused.  A further outline planning application had been submitted but was yet to be determined.  The case for changing the boundary rested on whether planning permission was granted.  Therefore, the request to change the boundary was considered premature.  In addition, the committee could not consider the views of people directly affected by the proposed change—the new residents of the site—in advance of any development.  Also, the land in question lay in a rural location.  The current boundary between the parishes reflected the “no man’s land” between communities, providing a natural easily identifiable boundary between the communities. 

RESOLVED: to make no change to the current boundary between Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor and Fyfield and Tubney parishes.