The Planning Consultation Events are for Planning Policy Officers from the City Council to hear your views about almost 100 sites that have been identified for potential development for uses such as housing, shops, student accommodation and offices over the next 15 years and to suggest other sites. They are also looking at new planning policies for housing and student accommodation. Future planning applications will ultimately be judged against these new policies.

The consultation event for the North East is happening on Tuesday

Headington Baptist Church, 78 Old High Street
Tuesday 30 November   4.30pm-7.30pm

The map of the areas put forward for development (and for what purpose), and information on how you can send in your comments, can be found here.  We would urge people to go and register your views. Areas in our ward include the JR Hospital site, Ruskin fields, Old High Street car park, Dorset House (corner of London Road/Latimer Road) the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Headington School and Headington Prep School

The types of things Planning Officers would be interested to hear about on the site maps are:

• Which sites do you think are suitable for development and for what uses?
• Which sites do you think are not suitable for development, and why?
• Do you have ideas for how any of the sites could be best developed, such as where the best access would be from or which features might need to be protected?
• Are there any other sites that we haven’t identified that you think are suitable for development?

The types of things they would be interested to hear about on the housing issues are:

• How can planning policies best ensure that new housing developments address the affordability crisis in Oxford?
• Where should student accommodation be located, and how should it be designed?
• Should we be doing more to manage the number of shared houses (or ‘houses in multiple occupation’)?
• How should we expect developers to build sustainable homes?
• How could planning policy better encourage quality design in homes, so that the impact of development on the wider area is positive?