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Appendix 1 Glossary

Access to Natural Greenspace Standard (ANGSt) need not be a registered provider); and (c) it ANGSt is a tool in assessing current levels of accessible includes provisions to remain at an affordable price natural greenspace, and planning for better provision. for future eligible households, or for the subsidy The three underlying principles of ANGSt are: to be recycled for alternative affordable housing a) Improving access to greenspaces provision. For Build to Rent schemes affordable b) Improving naturalness of greenspaces housing for rent is expected to be the normal c) Improving connectivity with greenspaces form of affordable housing provision (and, in this ANGST sets a maximum recommended standard context, is known as Affordable Private Rent). on walking distance people should have to travel b) Starter homes: is as specified in Sections 2 and 3 to have access to accessible natural greenspace. of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 and any For more information see “Nature Nearby” secondary legislation made under these sections. publication from Natural , available online The definition of a starter home should eflectr the at: http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/ meaning set out in statute and any such secondary publication/40004 legislation at the time of plan-preparation or For more information please visit: decision-making. Where secondary legislation has www.naturalengland.org.uk/ the effect of limiting a household’s eligibility to regions/east_of_england/ourwork/gi/ purchase a starter home to those with a particular accessiblenaturalgreenspacestandardangst.aspx maximum level of household income, those restrictions should be used. Adopted Policies Map c) Discounted market sales housing: is that sold at A map of the local planning authority’s area which a discount of at least 20% below local market must be reproduced from, or based on, an Ordnance value. Eligibility is determined with regard to local Survey map; include an explanation of any symbol or incomes and local house prices. Provisions should notation which it uses; and illustrate geographically the be in place to ensure housing remains at a discount application of the policies in the adopted development for future eligible households. plan. Where the adopted policies map consists of text d) Other affordable routes to home ownership: is and maps, the text prevails if the map and text conflict. housing provided for sale that provides a route to ownership for those who could not achieve home Adoption ownership through the market. It includes shared Formal approval by the Council of a DPD or SPD where ownership, relevant equity loans, other low cost upon it achieves its full weight in making planning homes for sale (at a price equivalent to at least decisions. 20% below local market value) and rent to buy (which includes a period of intermediate rent). Affordable Housing Where public grant funding is provided, there Affordable housing: housing for sale or rent, for those should be provisions for the homes to remain at whose needs are not met by the market (including an affordable price for future eligible households, housing that provides a subsidised route to home or for any receipts to be recycled for alternative ownership and/or is for essential local workers); and affordable housing provision, or refunded to which complies with one or more of the following Government or the relevant authority specified in definitions: the funding agreement. a) Affordable housing for rent: meets all of the following conditions: (a) the rent is set in Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) accordance with the Government’s rent policy for Areas designated by local authorities because they are Social Rent or Affordable Rent, or is at least 20% not likely to achieve national air quality objectives by below local market rents (including service charges the relevant deadlines. where applicable); (b) the landlord is a registered provider, except where it is included as part of a Build to Rent scheme (in which case the landlord

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Ancient Monument Biodiversity Any scheduled monument, or any other monument, Biodiversity is seen as the total complexity of all life, which in the opinion of the Secretary of State, is of including not only the great variety of organisms, but public interest by reason of the historic, architectural, also their varying behaviour and interactions. artistic or archaeological interest attributed to it. Building Research Establishment Environment Authority Monitoring Report (AMR) Assessment Method (BREEAM) A report produced at least annually assessing: progress A widely used environmental assessment method with the preparation of the local plan and other for buildings. BREEAM assesses buildings against set policy documents against the timetable published in criteria for sustainable building design, construction the Local Development Scheme, and the extent to and operation, and provides an overall score. which adopted plan policies are being successfully implemented. Burgage Plots Long, narrow plots, laid out at right angles to the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) street frontage, with the rear often accessed by a back A national designation to conserve and enhance the lane. Burgage plots were generally laid out in blocks, natural beauty of the landscape. The AONBs in South as acts of medieval town planning, comprising plots Oxfordshire District Council are the North Wessex of often uniform width (sometimes 6 metres). A main Downs and the Chilterns. building, generally shops or houses, occupied the frontage, with the rear containing ancillary buildings, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management and open space which was often used for digging cess Plan pits and rubbish pits. The boundaries between plots The Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management may now be marked by high stone or brick walls, and Plans for the Chilterns and the North Wessex in some cases, much or even all of the open space may Downs contain comprehensive summaries of the now have been built on. Their regular width sets the key issues facing the areas and the management rhythm of the street, within which buildings of various policies and actions needed to conserve the areas. dates and styles provide variety. Remaining open land For more information on the plans, please visit at the rear provides an important haven for wildlife and www.chilternsaonb.org/conservation-board/ acts as a ‘green lung’ in otherwise densely developed management-plan or www.northwessexdowns. and populated areas. org.uk/About-us/aonb-management-plan.html Carbon Compliance B1, B2, B8 use classes The overall onsite contribution to zero carbon. Business uses as defined in the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987. Chalk streams - B1 covers offices, research and development and light There are around 224 known chalk streams in industrial. England, which constitutes over 85% of the total - B2 covers general industrial. world resource. As a result chalk rivers have been - B8 covers storage or distribution. specifically identified as a priority for conservation under Section 41 of the Natural Environment and Rural Better Broadband for Oxfordshire Project Communities Act (2006) (s41 Natural Environment Better Broadband for Oxfordshire is a £25m project and Rural Communities Act 2006, available at: www. to bring fibre broadband to over 90% of homes and legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/16/contents). In businesses in the county. It’s a collaboration between South Oxfordshire they are generally fed from aquifers Oxfordshire County Council, the Government (through in the chalk rocks of the , the water is BDUK) and BT that will boost the local economy by characterised as having high clarity and quality, with creating and protecting jobs. For more information a stable temperature regime. It is the quality of the please visit: www.betterbroadbandoxfordshire.org. water as well as the in stream and bankside habitats uk/home that make chalk streams so important for a variety of rare and protected species. Chalk streams in the

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district arise from the escarpment of the Chiltern Hills, Conservation Area examples include the Brook and the An area designated by the district council under Brook. It is estimated that only around a quarter of Section 69 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Britain’s chalk streams are achieving good ecological Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as an area of special status under the Water Framework Directive (World architectural or historical interest, the character or Wildlife Fund (WWF) (2015) The State of England’s appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or Chalk Streams), available at: http://assets.wwf.org. enhance. There are additional controls over demolition, uk/downloads/wwf_chalkstreamreport_jan15_ minor developments and the felling of trees. forweb.pdf Conservation Target Areas (CTA) Climate Change Adaptation and mitigation These are county-wide important areas of landscape Climate change adaptation: Adjustments to natural that present the best opportunities for prioritising or human systems in response to actual or expected the conservation, enhancement and re-creation of climatic factors or their effects, including from changes designated sites and important habitats. in rainfall and rising temperatures, which moderate harm or exploit beneficial opportunities. Climate Consultation change mitigation: Action to reduce the impact A process by which people and organisations are asked of human activity on the climate system, primarily their views about planning decisions, including the through reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Local Plan.

Code for Sustainable Homes (The Code) Convenience retail Provides a comprehensive measure of sustainability of a The provision of everyday essential items, such as food. new home by rating and certifying new homes against nine categories of sustainable design: energy/CO2, Core Strategy pollution, water, health and well-being, materials, Term no longer used to describe a Development Plan management, surface water run-off, ecology and Document setting out the long-term spatial vision, waste. The Government has announced its intention strategic objectives and policies relating to future to wind down the code and include its element in development of the district. This document would now Building Regulations. be part of the Local Plan.

Community Forest Countryside Rights of Way Act 2000 (CROW Act An area identified through the England Community 2000) Forest Programme to revitalise countryside and green Provides for public access on foot to certain types of space in and around major conurbations. land, amends the law relating to public rights of way. It also places a duty on local authorities to produce Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) management plans for each AONB and to have regard A levy that local authorities can choose to charge to the purpose of conserving and enhancing the on new developments in their area. The money natural beauty of the AONBs when performing their can be used to support development by funding functions. For more information on the Act please visit: infrastructure. www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/37/contents

Community Right to Build Order Decentralised Energy An Order made by the local planning authority (under Local renewable energy and local low-carbon energy the Town and Country Planning Act 1990) that grants usually, but not always, on a relatively small scale planning permission for a site-specific development encompassing a diverse range of technologies. proposal or classes of development. Deliverability Comparison retail To be considered deliverable sites should be available Retail items not bought on a frequent basis, for now, offer a suitable location for development now example televisions and white goods (fridges, and be achievable with a realistic prospect that housing dishwashers etc). will be delivered on the site within five years and, in particular, that the site is viable.

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Designated heritage asset Employment Land Review (ELR) A World Heritage Site, Scheduled Monument, Listed An evidence base study to assess the quantity, quality Building, Protected Wreck Site, Registered Park and and viability of the district’s employment land supply Garden, Registered Battlefield or Conservation Area and forecast the future demand for employment land designated under the relevant legislation. over the next planning period.

Design and Access Statement Evidence Base A report accompanying and supporting a planning Information gathered by a planning authority to application as required by the Town and Country support the Local Plan and other Development Plan Planning (Development Management Procedure) Documents. (England) Order 2010 as amended. They provide a framework for applicants to explain how a proposed Examination development is a suitable response to the site and its An examination of the “soundness” of the Local Plan setting, and demonstrate that it can be adequately documents held in public by a planning inspector. accessed by prospective users. Exception Test Development Plan The Exception Test provides a method of managing This includes adopted Local Plans, Neighbourhood flood risk while still allowing necessary development Development Plans and the Waste and Minerals Local to occur. The Exception Test is only appropriate Plan, and is defined in section 38 of the Planning for use when there are large areas in Flood Zones and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. Planning 2 and 3, where the Sequential Test alone cannot applications have to be decided in accordance with deliver acceptable sites, but where some continuing the Development Plan unless material considerations development is necessary for wider sustainable indicate otherwise. development reasons, taking into account the need to avoid social or economic blight. Development Plan Documents (DPDs) Development Plan Documents set planning policies Extra Care Housing in local authority areas. All DPDs are subject to public Extra Care Housing is a type of self-contained housing consultation and independent examination. that offers care and support that falls somewhere between traditional sheltered housing and residential Duty-to-Cooperate care. Created in the Localism Act 2011, it amends the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. It places Five Year Housing Land Supply a legal duty on local planning authorities, county Paragraph 47 of the National Planning Policy councils in England and public bodies to engage Framework (NPPF) requires Local Planning Authorities constructively, actively and on an ongoing basis to to identify and update annually a supply of specific maximise the effectiveness of Local and Marine Plan deliverable sites sufficient to provide five years” worth preparation in the context of strategic cross boundary of housing against their housing requirements with matters. an additional buffer of 5% or 20% (moved forward from later in the plan period) to ensure choice and Enterprise Zone competition in the market for land. Areas around the country that support both new and expanding businesses by offering incentives through Flood and Water Management Act 2010 means such as business rates relief and simplified An Act to make provision about water, including planning procedures. provision about the management of risks in connection with flooding and coastal erosion. The Employment Land Act makes county councils responsible for leading the A designation that has defined boundaries and is used coordination of flood risk management in the area as to safeguard areas in the district for employment uses, the Lead Local Flood Authority. For more information both existing and proposed, as designated by the Local on the Act please visit: www.legislation.gov.uk/ Plan or a Neighbourhood Development Plan. ukpga/2010/29/contents

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Flood Zone 1 Green Infrastructure (GI) Land having a less than 1 in 1,000 annual probability Green infrastructure includes sites protected for their of river or sea flooding. This is the zone at lowest flood importance to wildlife or the environment, nature risk. reserves, greenspaces and greenway linkages. Together they provide a network of green space both urban and Flood Zone 2 rural, providing a wide range of environmental and Land having between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual quality of life benefits. probability of river flooding; or Land having between a 1 in 200 and 1 in 1,000 annual probability of sea Gypsies and Travellers (Planning definition) flooding. Persons of nomadic habit of life whatever their race or origin, including such persons who on grounds only of Flood Zone 3 / Flood Zone 3a their own or their family’s or dependants’ educational Land having a 1 in 100 or greater annual probability or health needs or old age have ceased to travel of river flooding; or Land having a 1 in 200 or greater temporarily, but excluding members of an organised annual probability of sea flooding. This is the zone at group of Travelling Showpeople or circus people the highest flood risk. travelling together as such.

Flood Zone 3b Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) This zone comprises land where water has to flow Used to assess the impacts of proposals and land-use or be stored in times of flood. Local planning plans against the conservation objectives of a European authorities should identify in their Strategic Flood Protected site and to ascertain whether it would Risk Assessments areas of functional floodplain and adversely affect the integrity of that site. its boundaries accordingly, in agreement with the Environment Agency. Heritage Asset A building, monument, site, place, area or landscape Green Belt identified as having a degree of significance meriting Designated land around a town or city where land is consideration in planning decisions, because of its kept permanently open and where development is heritage interest. Heritage assets includes designated severely restricted. The extent of the Green Belt assets (such as Scheduled Ancient Monuments, is defined on the Policies Map. Conservation Areas, Historic Parks and Gardens and Listed Buildings) and non-designated assets (not Green Belt Review designated as one of the above but of good local A Review whose purposes are: character or interest). 1. To review the land within the Green Belt against the five purposes of the Green Belt as outlined Historic Environment Record in paragraph 134 of the National Planning Policy Information services that seek to provide access to Framework. comprehensive and dynamic resources relating to the 2. To make an assessment of opportunities to enhance historic environment of a defined geographic area for the beneficial use of the Green Belt as outlined public benefit and use. Oxfordshire County Council in paragraph 141 of the National Planning Policy hold the Historic Environment Record for the County. Framework. 3. To review land on the edge of the Green Belt to Housing Market Area ascertain if the designation should be extended A housing market area is a geographical area defined 4 To assess whether any of the washed over villages by household demand and preferences for all types of should be included as an inset village. housing, reflecting the key functional linkages between It also includes the need to review the role of the edge places where people live and work of settlements in contribution to five purposes of the Green Belt in the light of the original designation Housing Need which set the “inner” boundaries very tightly around The quantity of housing required for households who the villages with no land for them to grow. are unable to access suitable housing without financial assistance.

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Housing Need Assessment (HNA) Listed Building A district wide assessment of predominantly affordable Buildings and structures which are listed by the housing need including a district wide housing needs Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as survey. being of special architectural and historic interest and whose protection and maintenance are the subject of Inclusivity special legislation. Listed building consent is required Planning for many different types of people, including before any works are carried out on a listed building. the elderly, disabled, parents and carers, and treating them all fairly and equally. Local Development Framework (LDF) This term has been replaced by the term “Local Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) Plan”. It was used to describe a portfolio of Local An indicative measure of deprivation for small areas Development Documents that provide a framework for across England. delivering the spatial planning strategy for the area. It also contains a number of other documents, including Infilling the Authority Monitoring Report, and any “saved” The filling of a small gap in an otherwise built up plans that affect the area. frontage or on other sites within settlements where the site is closely surrounded by buildings. Local Development Order (LDO) An Order made by a local planning authority (under Intermediate Affordable Housing the Town and Country Planning Act 1990) that grants Housing at prices and rents above those of social rent, planning permission for a specific development but below market price or rents. These can include proposal or classes of development. shared equity products and other low cost homes for sale or rent Local Development Scheme (LDS) This sets out the timetable and work programme Infrastructure for the preparation of the local plan and other Local All the ancillary works and services that are necessary Development Documents. to support human activities, including roads, sewers, schools, hospitals, etc. Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) A body, designated by the Secretary of State for Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) Housing, Communities and Local Government, A live document that identifies future infrastructure established for the purpose of creating or improving identified by the council and other service providers the conditions for economic growth in an area. For as being needed to support the delivery of the Local more information on Oxfordshire’s LEP please visit: Plan. It explains what is required, its cost, how it will be www.oxfordshirelep.org.uk/cms provided and when. Localism Act 2011 Larger village The Localism Act introduced changes to the planning Larger villages are defined as settlements with a more system (amongst other changes to local government) limited range of employment, services and facilities, including making provision for the revocation of where unallocated development will be limited to Regional Spatial Strategies, introducing the Duty to providing for local needs and to support employment, Cooperate and neighbourhood planning. services and facilities within local communities. Local Plan Lifetime Homes Standards The plan for the local area that sets out the long-term Incorporates 16 design criteria that can be universally spatial vision and development framework for the applied to new homes at minimal cost. Each design district and strategic policies and proposals to deliver feature adds to the comfort and convenience of the that vision. This replaces the Local Development home and supports the changing needs of individuals Framework. and families at different stages of life.

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Local Service Centre Material Consideration Local Service Centres are defined as larger villages This is a matter that should be taken into account or neighbourhoods to larger settlements with a level in deciding a planning application or on an appeal of facilities and services and local employment to against a planning decision. This can include issues provide the next best opportunities for sustainable such as overlooking/loss of privacy, parking, noise, development outside the Market Towns. effect on listed building and conservation area, or effect on nature conservation etc. Local Transport Plan (LTP) For more information please visit: National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF or The www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/content/local- Framework) transport-plan-2011-2030 Sets out the Government’s planning policies for England and how these are expected to be applied Major Development (large-scale) at a local level. The NPPF is a material consideration Largescale Major Developments. For dwellings, a when deciding on planning applications or appeals largescale major development is one where the number www.gov.uk/government/publications/national- of residential dwellings to be constructed is 200 or planning-policy-framework--2 more or 1,000sqm of industrial, commercial or retail floor space. Where the number of residential dwellings National Planning Practice Guidance (NPPG) or floor space to be to be constructed is not given in The National Planning Practice Guidance is a planning the application a site area of 4 hectares or more should practice on-line resource covering a range of planning be used as the definition of a major development. issues. http://planningguidance.planningportal. For all other uses a largescale major development is gov.uk/ one where the floorspace to be built is more than 10,000sqm, or where the site area is more than 2 Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act hectares. The definition for major development in the (NERC) 2006 AONB differs. Please refer to NPPF paragraph 116. An Act to make provision about bodies concerned with the natural environment and rural communities; Major Development (small-scale) to make provision in connection with wildlife, Sites Smallscale Major Developments. For dwellings, a of Special Scientific Interest, National Parks and the smallscale major development is one where the Broads; to amend the law relating to rights of way; to number of residential dwellings to be constructed is make provision as to the Inland Waterways Amenity between 10 and 199 inclusive. Where the number Advisory Council; to provide for flexible administrative of dwellings to be constructed is not given in the arrangements in connection with functions relating application a site area of between 0.5 hectares and to the environment and rural affairs and certain other less than 4 hectare should be used as the definition functions; and for connected purposes. For more of a smallscale major development. For all other information please visit: www.legislation.gov.uk/ uses a smallscale major development is one where ukpga/2006/16/contents the floorspace to be built is between 1,000sqm and 9,999sqm or where the site area is between 0.5 Neighbourhood Development Plan hectare and less than 2 hectares. The definition for A plan prepared by a Town or Council or major development in the AONB differs. Please refer to Neighbourhood Forum for a particular neighbourhood NPPF paragraph 172. area (made under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004). Market Town Market Towns are defined as settlements that have New Growth Point the ability to support the most sustainable patterns The New Growth Points initiative provides support to of living within South Oxfordshire through their local communities who wish to pursue large scale and current levels of facilities, services and employment sustainable growth, including new housing, through a opportunities. partnership with Government.

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Non-designated heritage assets Planning & Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 These are buildings, monuments, sites, places, areas or This Act updated the Town & Country Planning Act landscapes identified as having a degree of significance 1990. The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act meriting consideration in planning decisions but which 2004 introduced a new statutory system of regional are not formally designated heritage assets. In some and local planning and has since been amended by the areas, local authorities identify some non-designated Localism Act 2011. heritage assets as “locally listed”. Preferred Options Objectively Assessed Need This is a non-statutory stage of consultation of the The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) requires Local Plan setting out the preferred options for that local planning authorities identify the objectively growth in the area, based on the findings of previous assessed need for housing in their areas, and that Local consultation. South Oxfordshire District Council chose Plans translate those needs into land provision targets. to undertake a second iteration of Preferred Options consultation in Spring 2017. Older People People over retirement age, including the active, Previously Developed Land newly-retired through to the very frail elderly, whose Land which is or was occupied by a permanent housing needs can encompass accessible, adaptable structure, including the curtilage of the developed land general needs housing for those looking to downsize (although it should not be assumed that the whole of from family housing and the full range of retirement the curtilage should be developed) and any associated and specialised housing for those with support or care fixed surface infrastructure. This excludes: land that needs. is or has been occupied by agricultural or forestry buildings; land that has been developed for minerals Oxfordshire City Deal extraction or waste disposal by landfill purposes where The Oxford and Oxfordshire City Deal sets out the provision for restoration has been made through actions the region will take to create new jobs, support development control procedures; land in built-up areas research and businesses, and improve housing and such as private residential gardens, parks, recreation transport. grounds and allotments; and land that was previously- developed but where the remains of the permanent Oxfordshire Local Investment Plan structure or fixed surface structure have blended into For more information please visit: www.oxford.gov. the landscape in the process of time. uk/Direct/OxfordshireLocalInvestmentPlan.pdf Regional Strategy Oxfordshire Skills Strategy The South East Plan (2009) was extant until Sets the future direction for skills development in the March 2013 and therefore was used to inform the county to 2020 to support economic growth. For more development of the Core Strategy (adopted 2012) information please visit: until that point. An assessment of the South East www.oxfordshireskillsboard.org/oxfordshire-skills- Plan policies was made to ascertain any important strategy-2020/ considerations that might need to be taken forward once the plan was revoked. Oxfordshire Statement of Cooperation The Oxfordshire Statement of Cooperation outlines Registered Provider matters on which the six local authorities in Registered Providers are independent housing Oxfordshire will continue to cooperate. In particular, organisations registered with the Homes & the document sets out how the parties involved Communities Agency under the Housing Act 1996. will manage the outcomes of the Strategic Housing Most are housing associations, but there are also Market Assessment, should any of the Local Planning trusts, co-operatives and companies. Authorities in Oxfordshire not be able to meet their full objectively assessed housing need. For more River Basin Management Plan information please visit: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ River basin management plans (RBMPs) are drawn up cms/content/spatial-planning-and-infrastructure- for the 10 river basin districts in England and Wales partnership

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as a requirement of the water framework directive. Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) South Oxfordshire District Council is covered within Study carried out by one or more local planning the Thames River Basin Management Plan (2009). authorities to assess the risk to an area from flooding For more information please visit: https://www.gov. from all sources, now and in the future, taking account uk/government/publications/thames-river-basin- of the impacts of climate change, and to assess the management-plan impact that land use changes and development in the area will have on flood risk. The purpose of the Route Based Strategy (RBS) Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) is to identify Route-based strategies are being taken forward by the and analyse current and future broad scale flooding Highways England to enable a smarter approach to issues for key locations across the district. South investment planning and support greater participation Oxfordshire District Council’s SFRA has been prepared in planning for the strategic road network from local jointly with The Vale of the White Horse District and regional stakeholders. Council.

Rural Exception Site Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) Small sites used for affordable housing in perpetuity Identified protected areas of nature conservation and where sites would not normally be used for housing. scientific value identified by Natural England as being Rural exception sites seek to address the needs of of national (and sometimes international) importance. the local community by accommodating households who are either current residents or have an existing Smaller village family or employment connection. Small numbers of Smaller villages have a low level of services and market homes may be allowed at the local authority’s facilities, where any development should be modest in discretion, for example where essential to enable the scale and primarily be to meet local needs. delivery of affordable dwellings without grant funding. Southern Central Oxfordshire Transport Study Section 106 Agreement (SCOTS) A legal agreement under section 106 of the Town For more information please visit: www.southoxon. and Country Planning Act. They are legal agreements gov.uk/services-and-advice/planning-and-building/ between a planning authority and a developer, or planning-policy/evidence-studies/transport- undertakings offered unilaterally by a developer, strategy that ensure that certain extra works related to a development are undertaken. Spatial Strategy The overview and overall approach to the provision of Sequential Test jobs, homes and infrastructure over the plan period. A planning principle that seeks to identify, allocate or develop certain types of location of land before Special Area of Conservation (SAC) others. For example, brownfield housing sites before An area designated to protect the habitats of greenfield sites, or town centre retail sites before out- threatened species of wildlife under EU Directive 92/43. of-centre sites. With regard to flood risk, it seeks to locate development in areas of lower flood risk (Flood Stakeholders Groups Zone 1) before considering Flood Zones 2 or 3. Individuals or organisations that may be affected by, or have a key interest in, a development proposal or Settlement Hierarchy planning policy. They may often be experts in their field A way of identifying and classifying settlements within or represent the views of many people. South Oxfordshire and provides a guide to where development may be sustainable according to the role Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) and function of the settlement. The SCI sets out standards to be achieved by the local authority in relation to involving the community in the preparation, alteration and continuing review of all DPDs and in development management decisions.

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It is subject to independent examination. In respect of as a whole constitutes the Government’s view of what every DPD the local planning authority is required to sustainable development in England means in practice publish a statement showing how it complied with the for the planning system. SCI. Sustainable Drainage Systems (SUDs) Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) SUDs seek to manage surface water as close to the An assessment of the environmental effects of source as possible, mimicking surface water flows policies, plans and programmes, required by European arising from a site prior to the proposed development. legislation, which will be part of the public consultation Typically SUDs involve a move away from piped systems on the policies. to softer engineering solutions inspired by natural drainage processes. Strategic Housing Economic Land Availability Assessment (SHELAA) Sustainable Transport Modes An assessment of the land capacity across the district Any efficient, safe and accessible means of transport with the potential for housing and employment. with overall low impact on the environment, including walking and cycling, low and ultra low emission Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA) vehicles, car sharing and public transport. An assessment of existing and future housing need and demand within a defined housing market area, Thames Water Resources Management Plan focusing on all aspects of the housing market. More (WRMP) details are available in paragraph 159 of the NPPF. Water companies in England and Wales are required to produce a Water Resources Management Plan Strategic Allocation (WRMP) every five years which sets out how they aim An allocation of land for housing or employment to maintain water supplies over a 25 year period. For which has the potential for significant development more information on Thames Water’s Water Resources that contributes to achieving the spatial vision of an Management Plan, please visit: www.thameswater. area. In the context of the emerging SODC Local Plan, co.uk/about-us/5392.htm it refers to sites of 500+ dwellings. Transport Assessment (TA) Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) A comprehensive and systematic process that sets out Documents which add further detail to the policies in transport issues relating to a proposed development. the Local Plan. They can be used to provide further It identifies what measures will be required to improve guidance for development on specific sites, or on accessibility and safety for all modes of travel, particular issues, such as design. Supplementary particularly for alternatives to the car such as walking, planning documents are capable of being a material cycling and public transport and what measures will consideration in planning decisions but are not part of need to be taken to deal with the anticipated transport the development plan. impacts of the development.

Sustainability Appraisal (SA) Transport Statement The process of assessing the economic, social and A simplified version of a transport assessment environmental effects of a proposed plan. This process where it is agreed the transport issues arising out of implements the requirements of the SEA Directive. development proposals are limited and a full transport Required to be undertaken for all DPDs. assessment is not required.

Sustainable Development Travel Plan A widely used definition drawn up by the World A long-term management strategy for an organisation Commission on Environment and Development in or site that seeks to deliver sustainable transport 1987: “development that meets the needs of the objectives through action and is articulated in a present without compromising the ability of future document that is regularly reviewed. generations to meet their own needs”. The NPPF taken

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Travelling Showpeople (Planning definition) Members of a group organised for the purposes of holding fairs, circuses or shows (whether or not travelling together as such). This includes such persons who on the grounds of their own or their family’s or dependants’ more localised pattern of trading, educational or health needs or old age have ceased to travel temporarily, but excludes Gypsies and Travellers as defined above.

UK Competitiveness Index The UKCI provides a benchmarking of the competitiveness of the UK’s localities, and it has been designed to be an integrated measure of competitiveness focusing on both the development and sustainability of businesses and the economic welfare of individuals.

Unallocated sites Unallocated sites are housing sites that come forward which are not allocated in the development plan. These include both greenfield land and previously developed land. Predicted delivery rates are based on past trends.

Watercourse Main rivers, (larger rivers, brooks and streams), and ordinary watercourses (headwaters and smaller brooks and streams). Watercourses as defined in s72(1) Land Drainage Act 1991, available at: www. legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/59/section/24; Ordinary watercourses as defined in the Flood and Water Management Act 2010, available at: www. legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/29/contents

Windfall sites Sites which have not been specifically identified as available in the Local Plan process. They normally comprise previously developed sites that have unexpectedly become available.

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Appendix 2 Strategic Allocation Maps

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Appendix 3 Site Allocations

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Appendix 4 Green Belt Proposed Changes

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Appendix 5

Safeguarding Maps

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Appendix 6 Garden Town Principles

1. Design 5. Heritage The Garden Town will be characterised by design The Garden Town will conserve and enhance heritage that adds value to Didcot and endures over time; it assets, both designated and non-designated, within will encourage pioneering architecture of buildings and adjacent to the development area. This includes and careful urban design of the spaces in between, the Scheduled Monuments of the settlement sites prioritising green spaces over roads and car parks. All north of Milton Park and east of Appleford and any new proposals should show the application of the archaeological remains and historic landscapes and/ council’s adopted Design Guide SPD and demonstrate or landscape features identified in the Oxfordshire best practice design standards. Historic Environment Record, the Oxfordshire Historic Landscape Character Assessment, other sources and/or 2. Local Character through further investigation and assessment. The Garden Town will establish a confident and unique identity, becoming a destination in itself that is 6. Landscape and Green Infrastructure distinctive from surrounding towns and villages whilst New development in the Garden Town will enhance respecting and protecting their rural character and the natural environment, through enhancing green setting. Didcot’s identity will champion science, natural and blue infrastructure networks, creating ecological beauty, and green living, in part delivered through networks to support an increase (or where possible strengthened physical connections and active public achieve a net gain) in biodiversity and supporting and private sector collaboration with the Science Vale. climate resilience through the use of adaptation and design measures. The Garden Town will also seek 3. Density and tenure to make effective use of natural resources including The Garden Town will incorporate a variety of energy and water efficiency, as well as exploring densities, housing types and tenures to meet the needs opportunities for promoting new technology within of a diverse community. This will include high density developments. Innovative habitat planting and food development in suitable locations, such as in central growing zones will characterise the Garden Town and, Didcot and near sustainable transport hubs; higher in turn, these measures will support quality of life and density development will be balanced by good levels of public health. public realm and accessible green space. Professionally managed homes for private rent (also known as Build 7. Social and community benefits to Rent) could play an important role in meeting The planning of the Garden Town will be housing need. community-focused, creating accessible and vibrant neighbourhoods around a strong town centre offer 4. Transport and movement of cultural, recreational and commercial amenities The Garden Town will reduce reliance on motorised that support well-being, social cohesion and vibrant vehicles and will promote a step-change towards active communities. The Garden Town will embrace and public transport through the creation of a highly community participation throughout its evolution. It legible, attractive and accessible movement network will promote community ownership of land and long- and the appropriate location of housing, employment term stewardship of assets where desirable. and leisure facilities. The Garden Town will seek to improve opportunities for access to sport and physical activities through Sport England’s Active Design Principles. Cycling and pedestrian links between the Garden Town, its surrounding villages, natural assets and the strategic employment sites will be enhanced.

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Appendix 7 Settlement Hierarchy

Towns Didcot Henley-on-Thames Wallingford

Larger villages Benson Goring Chalgrove Common Watlington Wheatley Gifford

Smaller villages Other villages Milton Common / Aston Bix Tirrold Moreton Beckley North Stoke North Weston Brightwell-cum-Sotwell Peppard Common Nuffield Burcot Crocker End and Catslip Peppard Crowell Sandford-on- Thames Dorchester Lower Drayton St Leonard Russell’s Water Shiplake Cross (SW of Ewelme A4074) Forest Hill South Stoke Stanton St John Greys Green Henton Highmoor Cross Sydenham Highmoor Holton Ispden Tiddington Kingwood Common / Hill & Bottom Shillingford NE of Witheridge Hill Little Milton A4074 Littleworth (near Whitchurch-on-Thames Wheatley)

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Appendix 8 Local Plan Development Trajectory

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Appendix 9 Designated Sites for Nature Conservation

Sites of Special Scientific Interest containing Priority Habitats

Broad / Priority habitat SSSIs containing priority habitat OS grid reference Boundary and linear features Ancient hedgerow Aston Rowant SU728972 Otmoor SP575130 Broadleaved, mixed and yew woodland Mixed deciduous woodland SU715880 Holly Wood SP588100 SP603080 Sidlings Copse and College Pond SP555095 Stanton Great Wood SP588093 SP605090 Wood SP533123 Yew woodland SU619793 Lowland beech woodland Aston Rowant SU728972 Bear, Oveys and Greatbottom Wood SU693840, SU703830 Berrick Trench SU705882 Aston Rowant Woods SU750984 SU761804 SU738841 Woods SU715901, SU713905 Calcareous grassland Lowland calcareous grassland Aston Rowant SU728972 SP545834, SU536835 Berins Hill Bank SU654852 SP766007 Hartslock SU619793 Moulsford Downs SU578827 Hill SU715955 Sidlings Copse and College Pond SP555095 SU672915 SU653857 Watlington and Pyrton Hills SU705936 Wormsley Chalk Banks SU747926, SU751923, SU737932, SU728936, SU745938, SU736958 Fens, marsh and swamps Fens Sidlings Copse and College Pond SP555095 Spartum Fen SP654016 Neutral grassland Lowland meadow Shabbington Woods Complex SP615110 Otmoor SP575130

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Local Nature Reserves ...... SU636920 ...... SP702055 ...... SU523887 ...... SU700940

County Wildlife Sites* Almshill Larch...... SU737884 Langtree House Bank...... SU639826 Bank by Pindars Wood...... SU729825 Lollingdon Hill...... SU568849 Beckley Pasture...... SP564115 Long Wood...... SP535105 ...... SU544861 Lower Farm bottom hay pasture...... SP535001 Bottom Farm Bank...... SU673777 Lowerhill Farm Wood...... SU580931 Bottom Wood...... SU658781 Monastic Fish Ponds, South Stoke...... SU597838 Bozedown...... SU647780 Monks Wood Grassland...... SP565066 Bozedown Vineyard (north)...... SU639780 Nettlebed Common...... SU702872 Bozedown Vineyard (south)...... SU640777 North Unhill Bank...... SU563834 Bottom Meadow...... SU728943 Nuffield Common...... SU674875 Bypass Swamp...... SP525029 Nuneham Arboretum...... SU554985 Clifton Hampden Meadow...... SU552956 Parklane Shaw...... SU675805 Clifton Hampden Wood...... SU552958 Peppard Common...... SU705816 Combe Fields (east)...... SU615797 Pishill Bank...... SU725906 Combe Fields (north)...... SU615803 Pond north of ...... SU605861 Combe Fields (west)...... SU612798 Reading Golf Course (east)...... SU712772 Cookes Copse...... SP557112 Reading Golf Course (west)...... SU704771 ...... SU732798 Rush Court...... SU602918 Didcot Marshalling Yard...... SU548893 Sandford Brake...... SP562017 Dorchester Gravel Pits (Allen Pit)...... SU572945 Shillingford Boathouse Carr...... SU593925 Dorchester Gravel Pits (Drayton Road Pit)...... SU582952 Shillingford Hotel Meadow...... SU593921 Dorchester Gravel Pits (Queenford Pit)...... SU578953 Shiplake Marsh...... SU759774 Dorchester Gravel Pits (Whittles Pit)...... SU585945 South Stoke Marsh (north)...... SU594841 Dorchester Meadow...... SU572940 South Stoke Marsh (south)...... SU596832 Easington Fen...... SU667965 (north)...... SU738893 Edge of Nippers Grove...... SU673809 Stonor Park (south west)...... SU738888 Eversdown...... SU743857 Straw Hill...... SU660778 Ewelme Cress Beds...... SU640916 Thames Island near Streatley...... SU599813 Fiddle Hill...... SU612819 Unhill and Ham Woods...... SU560823 Fiddlers Elbow Marsh...... SP529019 Upper Park Farm...... SP573113 Furze Brake...... SU535965 Warren Wood...... SU765779 Hayward’s Eyot...... SU542937 Watlington Hay Meadow...... SU698938 Henley Road Pit...... SU734744 Westford Hill...... SU666776 Henton Marsh...... SP767027 Westford Hill Copse...... SU666778 Hernes...... SU748827 Whitchurch-on-Thames Wet Meadow...... SU627770 Heyford Hill Lane Pasture...... SP526026 Holly Hill (Elmore Park Grassland)...... SU628814 *The County Wildlife Site selection system is informed Holton Brook Meadow (central)...... SP610080 by a rolling survey programme with sites being added Holton Brook Meadow (east)...... SP614079 to and removed from the list as part of the process. Holton Brook Meadow (south)...... SP614077 The list only represents, therefore,the picture at the Holton Brook Meadow (west)...... SP607082 point of publishing the plan. Holton Brook Meadow Extension...... SP608083 Kents Hill...... SU726808 The identification of sites in these lists does not confer Kingwood Common...... SU696825 any public rights of access to the land.

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Appendix 10 Scheduled Monuments

Scheduled Ancient Monuments

Parish County No Monument Title Grid Ref

Aston Upthorpe 204 Lowbury Hill Camp SU540823 Aston Upthorpe 205 Blewburton Hill SU547862 Aston Upthorpe 214 Grim’s Ditch - section on Aston Upthorpe Down SU535833 SU543830 Aston Upthorpe 258 Bell Barrow NE of Oven Bottom SU542838 Beckley & Stowood 28140 Two sections of a Roman road on Otmoor SP572144 SP572139 SP572138 SP570126 Bix & Assendon 99 Bix old church SU726870 Brightwell-cum-Sotwell 28197 Brightwell barrow SU577919 Checkendon 129 Castle Grove camp SU683809 Chinnor 28154 Three bowl barrows on Chinnor Hill SP765002 SP767006 Clifton Hampden 1421606 Round Barrow Cemetery at Fullamoor Plantation SU531944 Crowmarsh 32 Grim’s Ditch - portion from Mongewell Park Lodge to S SU617879 () of Nuffield Church SU657872 (Nuffield) SU658872 SU 666871 Crowmarsh 121 North Stoke henge and ring ditch site SU611857 (South Stoke) Culham 13 SU501958 Culham 147 Settlement site N of Thames SU523945 Culham 231 Abingdon Bridge including Maud Hale’s Bridge SU498969 SU500967 Culham 30848 at Culham Manor SU500948 Dorchester 17 Dyke Hills SU570938 SU578932 Dorchester 116 Roman town SU577941 SU576940 SU578942 SU579943 SU578943 Dorchester 144 Ring ditches, cursus, and settlement site SU590940 (Warborough) East Hagbourne 28155 village cross SU515884 East Hagbourne 28156 Village cross SU526883

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Appendix 11 English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in South Oxfordshire

English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in South Oxfordshire

Location Grade

1. Ascott Stadhampton ...... II 2. Beckley Park ...... II* 3. Fair Mile Hospital ...... II 4. Fawley Court (part) near Henley ...... II* 5. Friar Park, Henley-on-Thames...... II 6. ...... II* 7. Greys Court, Rotherfield Greys...... II 8. Nuneham Courtenay...... I 9. ...... II 10. , near Oxford...... I 11. Stonor...... II* 12. Thame Park...... II*

English Heritage Register of Historic Battlefields in South Oxfordshire 1. Chalgrove Field

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Appendix 12 Listed Buildings, Heritage at risk and Conservation Areas in South Oxfordshire

Listed Buildings To access a list of the Listed Buildings within South Oxfordshire please follow the link below: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/results?searchtype=nhleadvanced

Heritage at risk To access a list of heritage assets at risk within South Oxfordshire please follow the link below: https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritage-at-risk/search-register/ results/?advsearch=1&Lpa=South%20Oxfordshire&searchtype=harsearch

Conservation Areas Aston Rowant Long Wittenham /Upthorpe Mackney Beckley Benson Marsh Baldon Berrick Salome Moreton Brightwell Baldwin Nettlebed Brightwell cum Sotwell North Moreton Britwell Salome North Stoke Chalgrove Nuneham Courtenay Checkendon Oakley Chinnor Overy Cholsey Preston Crowmarsh Clifton Hampden Pyrton Culham Cuxham Shepherd’s Green Didcot Old Area Shillingford Didcot Northbourne Area Shirburn Didcot Station Road Sonning Eye Dorchester South Moreton East Hagbourne Stanton St John Stoke Row Ewelme Stonor Forest Hill Sydenham Garsington Thame Gatehampton Toot Baldon Goring Towersey Great Haseley Wallingford Great Milton Warborough Grey’s Green Waterstock Henley-on-Thames Watlington Kingston Blount West Hagbourne Lewknor Wheatley Little Haseley Whitchurch Little Milton Little Wittenham Woodeaton

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Appendix 13 Town Centre Boundaries and Primary Shopping Frontages

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Appendix 15 List of Article 4 Directions in South Oxfordshire

• Didcot - Station Road • East Hagbourne - Kingsholme Close • Henley-on-Thames - Reading Road Conservation Area • Henley-on-Thames - St Mark’s Road Conservation Area • Wallingford - Beansheaf Terrace and Croft Terrace • Wallingford - Castle Street, Nos. 12-16 • Wallingford - Kinecroft Terrace and Church Lane • Wallingford - St John’s Green • Wallingford - St Peter’s Street, eastern end of High Street, and northern ends of Thames Street and Wood Street • Wallingford - St Leonard’s Lane and southern end of Thames Street

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