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Welcome to Woodcote
The latest issue of the Woodcote Correspondent is available to download here.
Selected photographs on this website courtesy of Alan Copeland.
Neighbourhood Plan
The recent application for Hilltop Field shows how attractive Woodcote is to developers. Although that application was refused by SODC, the District's Core Strategy www.southoxon.gov.uk/corestrategy means that Woodcote will have to accommodate a significant amount of new housing between now and 2027.
Three Village Appraisals and the Parish Plan have made clear the concern in the village about new housing and the potential damage to the rural feel and surrounding countryside. The Neighbourhood Plan is the best means available to Woodcote to control future building in the village. It gives residents the right to say what sort of housing we want and where it should be located.
The Neighbourhood Plan builds on the Parish Plan and takes forward many of the Parish Plan's recommendations. Unlike the Parish Plan, the Neighbourhood Plan carries statutory weight and considerably strengthens our ability to guide development in Woodcote in a way that reflects the priorities and needs expressed by the majority of those who responded to the Village Appraisals and the Parish Plan.
The Neighbourhood Plan is a partnership between SODC and the Parish Council. It is led by a Woodcote team comprised of those who volunteered at the extraordinary meeting of the Parish Council held in the Village Hall in early September 2011 or soon after.
The Plan is being developed by the village for the village and must be approved in a referendum of all those who live in the village.
The planning team are keen to hear from everybody and to keep everyone up to date with progress and able to comment. Articles have already appeared in the Woodcote Correspondent and there will be a public exhibition in March but in the meantime if you:
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