We’re pleased to inform you that we have at last been able to complete the revised and updated Mid-Cherwell Neighbourhood Plan (MCNP), and would welcome your comments and feedback on it.

The easiest way to see the Plan and other documents, and to submit your comments, is by using the website consultation page and online response form - click here.

The consultation closes at 23.59 on Friday, 23rd May 2025.
We cannot guarantee that submissions made after this time will be considered.

We apologise to consultees for asking once again for your comments on our revised Plan, much of which remains substantially as before, but with the following key changes:
 

• Policies, maps and charts have been revised to exclude Heyford Park parish, where necessary.
• The Plan period has been extended to 2042 to match the Local Plan.
• Our Local Gap policy has been modified, with one omission and two additional gaps.
• Our previous policies proposing a Special Landscape Area, and a new Cemetery at Heyford Park, have been deleted.
• Housing site allocation policies have been reviewed, and new sites added.
• A new policy on Affordable Housing Allocation has been included.
• Amendments have been made which resulted from helpful comments received in the previous consultation.

Previous consultees are now asked to comment on any of the changes listed above, and do not need to repeat comments made in earlier submissions unless they wish to do so. New consultees are invited to comment on any aspect of the Plan. Before you make your comments on a Policy, please read through it and its Rationale (which provides the background and evidence; there may also be a reference to an Appendix, which will give more detail).

The various technical appendices are also available again on the Consultation web pages. Due to resource constraints some of the Appendices have not been amended to reflect the omission of Heyford Park, other than the addition of notes to clarify the position, where necessary.

All further comments received will be given careful consideration; our review team will make amendments to the draft Plan, taking your views into account. A further version of the Plan will then be formally submitted to Cherwell District Council.