Regulation 14 consultation – again!
Thank you to everybody who responded to the Regulation 14 consultation on the Deddington Pre-Submission Neighbourhood Plan earlier. Unfortunately there is one document that was missing before. This was the full Draft SEA report by AECOM (in addition to the two site reports and Housing Needs Assessment by AECOM). It is a requirement of the neighbourhood plan process that this full report be circulated and publicised. So here it is – a big file so takes some time to load.
You have six weeks to respond to it if you wish – the deadline being 6 May 2023. Please send your comments to info@deddingtonneighbourhoodplan.org or by post to Parish Office, Windmill Centre, Hempton Road, Deddington, OX15 0QH (marked for the attention of Cllr Alan Collins and the DNP steering group).
We are sorry for our oversight (and the extra reading for you). This additional consultation should not delay the neighbourhood plan process because Cherwell District Council will not proceed to the next stage – the Regulation 16 consultation, with the plan modified in light of your responses – during the pre-local election period. CDC has put off certain decision-making and consultations until after the local elections on 4 May.
You have six weeks to respond to it if you wish – the deadline being 6 May 2023. Please send your comments to info@deddingtonneighbourhoodplan.org or by post to Parish Office, Windmill Centre, Hempton Road, Deddington, OX15 0QH (marked for the attention of Cllr Alan Collins and the DNP steering group).
We are sorry for our oversight (and the extra reading for you). This additional consultation should not delay the neighbourhood plan process because Cherwell District Council will not proceed to the next stage – the Regulation 16 consultation, with the plan modified in light of your responses – during the pre-local election period. CDC has put off certain decision-making and consultations until after the local elections on 4 May.
Regulation 14 Consultation: Pre-Submission Deddington Neighbourhood Plan
This is the pack of documents for the Regulation 14 Consultation assembled by the Deddington Neighbourhood Plan steering group. Normally the consultation period is six weeks, but because Christmas intervenes, we are extending the period to seven weeks. So the closing date for responses to the consultation will be Wednesday, 11 January 2023.
Please send your comments to info@deddingtonneighbourhoodplan.org or by post to Parish Office, Windmill Centre, Hempton Road, Deddington, OX15 0QH (marked for the attention of Cllr Alan Collins and the DNP steering group)
The documents are:
Please send your comments to info@deddingtonneighbourhoodplan.org or by post to Parish Office, Windmill Centre, Hempton Road, Deddington, OX15 0QH (marked for the attention of Cllr Alan Collins and the DNP steering group)
The documents are:
- The Pre-Submission Neighbourhood Plan 2020-40 which was approved by Deddington Parish Council at its meeting on 16 November 2022. This includes prospective site allocations and draft policies.
- The Site Assesssment report, which lists the potential sites for development offered by landowners and their agents, and describes how a long list, then a short list, and then the three for potential allocation were selected
- A character study of the three villages that comprise Deddington Parish
- A Housing Needs Assessment carried out by AECOM, an independent consultancy
- Site Options Assessment 1 and Site Options Assessment 2: Strategic Environmental Assessment reports on the various sites that have been offered, also produced by AECOM
Results of the informal Neighbourhood Plan Survey in Deddington Parish, 11 November 2022
Introduction
The Deddington Neighbourhood Plan steering group conducted a survey in June this year (2022) to guide us in creating a neighbourhood plan covering the years 2020–2040. Around 1,050 booklets were delivered to every household in the parish and 405 responses were received – a few more via Survey Monkey than on paper. This is considered a pretty good response and we are very grateful to everyone who answered what was a lengthy document.
Underlying the survey were two reports carried out by AECOM, an infrastructure consulting firm. One assessed housing need, which was set at 126 dwellings to the end of the plan period – from which 56 homes granted consent since 2019 could be deducted. The other assessed the sustainability of the sites offered for development, taking into account considerations of landscape, historic environment, and value to the community in terms of health, convenience, transportation and eco viability.
The first part of the survey invited parishioners to vote on which of the 14 sites offered by landowners they preferred for development. The second part focused on the 16 neighbourhood plan draft policies.
Your votes and comments – well over a thousand of them – have been hugely helpful to us in creating the draft plan. And, course, to satisfy Cherwell District Council and ultimately the government examiner, we have to take into account other planning considerations as well. The resulting pre-submission Neighbourhood Plan (NP) will be put to a Regulation 14 consultation for consideration by Cherwell District Council and other statutory consultees very shortly. Ultimately the completed plan will be put before an examiner and then to a referendum of the parish.
Below are links to the following comprehensive results of the NP survey:
Voting on the sites for potential allocation
Comments on potential site allocation
Summary of voting on NP policies
Comments on NP policies 1–10
Comments on NP policies 11–16 and Community Guidance
Any other comments
Policy maps for NP
Photographs of cherished views
The Deddington Neighbourhood Plan steering group conducted a survey in June this year (2022) to guide us in creating a neighbourhood plan covering the years 2020–2040. Around 1,050 booklets were delivered to every household in the parish and 405 responses were received – a few more via Survey Monkey than on paper. This is considered a pretty good response and we are very grateful to everyone who answered what was a lengthy document.
Underlying the survey were two reports carried out by AECOM, an infrastructure consulting firm. One assessed housing need, which was set at 126 dwellings to the end of the plan period – from which 56 homes granted consent since 2019 could be deducted. The other assessed the sustainability of the sites offered for development, taking into account considerations of landscape, historic environment, and value to the community in terms of health, convenience, transportation and eco viability.
The first part of the survey invited parishioners to vote on which of the 14 sites offered by landowners they preferred for development. The second part focused on the 16 neighbourhood plan draft policies.
Your votes and comments – well over a thousand of them – have been hugely helpful to us in creating the draft plan. And, course, to satisfy Cherwell District Council and ultimately the government examiner, we have to take into account other planning considerations as well. The resulting pre-submission Neighbourhood Plan (NP) will be put to a Regulation 14 consultation for consideration by Cherwell District Council and other statutory consultees very shortly. Ultimately the completed plan will be put before an examiner and then to a referendum of the parish.
Below are links to the following comprehensive results of the NP survey:
Voting on the sites for potential allocation
Comments on potential site allocation
Summary of voting on NP policies
Comments on NP policies 1–10
Comments on NP policies 11–16 and Community Guidance
Any other comments
Policy maps for NP
Photographs of cherished views