West Oxfordshire District Council’s ‘Preferred Policy Options Paper’ consultation is now live

West Oxfordshire District Council has today launched a 6-week public consultation to help shape the development of the new West Oxfordshire Local Plan 2041. 


The consultation runs from 26 June – 8 August 2025 and is focused on 3 particular elements: 


A draft vision of West Oxfordshire in 2041: a vision of our ambitions for West Oxfordshire in 2041.   


Revised objectives for the Local Plan: key priorities that we believe will help us make our vision a reality.   

 

Preferred Policy Options: our preferred policy approaches have been defined in order to address social, environmental and economic challenges and opportunities facing the district. The policies are categorised under the following four themes: 


  • Core policies 


  • Place based policies 


  • Settlement strategies 


  • Development Management policies 


This is not yet a draft Local Plan, and no new development sites are being proposed at this stage. Instead, we are asking for feedback on the proposed direction of the plan and the policy suggestions that will underpin the Draft Local Plan. A separate consultation focused on development site options will follow later in the year. 


Hard copies of the consultation material will be made available at Council Offices and all district libraries. 


To complement the digital consultation, we will also be running a number of ‘in-person’ consultation events, details of which will be published in due course.



If you have any questions relating to the consultation, please contact the Planning Policy team on planning.consultation@westoxon.gov.uk 

 

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