Structure Plan Response

The proposal to build up to 6000 houses on Green Belt land between the villages of Sunningwell, Bayworth and the A34 is not a formal planning application, and little information has as yet been provided by the developers who are using the Oxfordshire County Council Structure Plan public consultation process in an attempt to enable the scheme to go ahead. SPADE in representing the concerns and interests of local residents, seeks to prevent this totally inappropriate and disproportionate development from being considered worthy of inclusion in future drafts of the Structure Plan.

SPADE therefore acted urgently to help get as large a response as possible to the public consultation on the draft structure plan

SPADE co-ordinated the public response to the structure plan from Sunningwell, Bayworth and the surrounding area. We delivered structure plan response forms to all households in the parish to enable everyone to make a comment during the consultation process, highlighting why a proposal on the scale of Penbridge would be totally inappropriate for the locality. We provided forms that were partly filled with appropriate responses, as requested at the public meeting on the proposal and we also provided blank forms to allow people to make their own individual responses. We co-ordinated the return of parishioners’ forms which were collected for delivery to the county council.

On Wednesday 5th November SPADE delivered over 350 responses to the structure plan to Councillor Anne Purse on behalf of local residents. This event received front page coverage in the local press. You can see this on our Press coverage page. Many other response forms were returned directly to the county council by local residents.

This is a massive response – thank you to everyone who completed response forms.