Evidence studies

A key to the progress of the local development framework is an evidence base.  PPS12 states that local planning authorities should prepare and maintain an up-to-date information base on key aspects of the social, economic and environmental characteristics of their area, to enable the preparation of a sound spatial plan meeting the objectives of sustainable development.

Important information please read

As it stands, the documents listed below make up the evidence base that was submitted to the planning inspectorate in March 2011, as part of South Oxfordshire's Submission Core Strategy.  

Following the 17 May 2011 exploratory meeting on the submitted core strategy, the Council made a number of changes to the core strategy to address the Inspector’s conclusions.  These changes resulted in some evidence-base documents needing to be updated.  Strike-through versions highlighting the changes are contained on a new web page, which is available using this link.  These documents were made available at the start of the recent 8 July publication period via the older format of the evidence base web-page.

We have updated some important documents to evidence base to take account of preliminary Inspector recommended changes.  You can access this via this link.

 Henley Site Assessment information submitted as part of the November 2011 core strategy hearings

The evidence base includes:

Core Strategy Background Papers

Housing and housing evidence

Infrastructure

Economy and Retail

Landscape and environment

Transport

Communities, services and recreation

Flooding

Place specific studies

Concept masterplans:

Thame appendices:

Our evidence base also includes:

Stakeholder and public involvement

Last reviewed: 23 - 04 - 2012

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