Oxford City Council Core Strategy 2011-2026
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Oxford Core Strategy 2026 Adopted 14th March 2011 SPATIAL PORTRAIT VISION AND OBJECTIVES THE SPATIAL CONTENTS STRATEGY AND STRATEGIC LOCATIONS FOR CONTENTS . .1 APPENDICES DEVELOPMENT FOREWORD . 3 Appendix 1: Glossary . .155 RESPONDING TO KEY DIAGRAM . .4 Appendix 2: Replacement of policies in the CLIMATE CHANGE INTRODUCTION . .5 Oxford Local Plan 2001-2016 . .160 PROVIDING Appendix 3: Quality assurance . .162 INFRASTRUCTURE Appendix 4: Housing delivery and trajectory . .163 TO SUPPORT NEW SECTION 1 SPATIAL PORTRAIT . .10 DEVELOPMENT Appendix 5: Neighbourhood Centres . .168 1.1 Spatial portrait of Oxford . .11 PROMOTING 1.2 Oxford’s role in the region . .15 SOCIAL INCLUSION 1.3 Issues and challenges . .16 FIGURES AND IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE Figure 1: Key diagram . .4 Figure 2: Core Strategy timetable . .5 MAINTAINING SECTION 2 VISION AND OBJECTIVES . 20 A BALANCED Figure 3: The Oxford Local Development HOUSING SUPPLY 2.1 Vision to 2026 . .21 Framework . .6 2.2 Strategic objectives . .23 Figure 4: Key Plans and Strategies informing STRENGTHENING the Core Strategy . .8 PROSPERITY Section 3 THE SPATIAL STRATEGY AND Figure 5: Central Oxfordshire Sub-Region . .15 IMPLEMENTING AND STRATEGIC LOCATIONS FOR Figure 6: Index of Multiple Deprivation MONITORING THE by Ward . .35 CORE STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT . 26 Figure 7: District Areas of Oxford including 3.1 The spatial strategy . .27 future development distribution . .60 3.2 Reducing the need to travel . .28 Figure 8: Headington district Area . .61 3.3 Regeneration and the reuse of Figure 9: Cowley Road district Area . .62 previously developed land . .33 Figure 10: Cowley/Blackbird Leys district area . .63 3.4 Meeting Oxford’s housing and Figure 11: Summertown district area . .65 employment needs . .40 Figure 12: City centre district area . .67 3.5 Place-shaping local areas of Oxford . .58 Figure 13: Oxford’s biodiversity . .78 Figure 14: Oxford’s historic environment . .96 CORE POLICIES Section 4 RESPONDING TO Section 7 MAINTAINING A BALANCED CLIMATE CHANGE . .70 HOUSING SUPPLY . .104 1 4.1 Energy and natural resources . .71 7.1 Level of housing growth and 4.2 Waste and recycling . .72 timing of delivery . .105 4.3 Flooding . .73 7.2 Mix of housing types and sizes . .107 4.4 Biodiversity . .75 7.3 Delivering new affordable housing . .109 7.4 Student accommodation . .111 7.5 Accommodation for travelling Section 5 PROVIDING INFRASTRUCTURE communities . .112 TO SUPPORT NEW DEVELOPMENT . .80 Section 8 STRENGTHENING 5.1 Transport and accessibility . .81 PROSPERITY . .114 5.2 Primary healthcare . .87 5.3 Education . .89 8.1 Economy . .115 5.4 Infrastructure and developer 8.2 The universities and hospitals . .119 contributions . .91 8.3 Retail . .122 8.4 Sustainable tourism . .127 Section 6 PROMOTING SOCIAL INCLUSION AND IMPROVING SECTION 9 IMPLEMENTING AND QUALITY OF LIFE . .94 MONITORING . .130 6.1 Urban design, townscape character 9.1 Implementation . .131 and the historic environment . .95 9.2 Monitoring . .143 6.2 Community safety . .98 6.3 Cultural and community development . .99 6.4 Green spaces, leisure and sport . .100 All maps reproduced from the Ordnance Survey map with the permission of the controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO). Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Oxford City Council Mapping Services Agreement DOXF 002. Oxford Core Strategy 2026 Adopted March 2011 SPATIAL PORTRAIT VISION AND OBJECTIVES THE SPATIAL FOREWORD STRATEGY AND STRATEGIC LOCATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT While many cities aspire to be world class, residents in Oxford know that our city is RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGE in many respects already world class. Oxford’s unique heritage draws visitors from PROVIDING around the world. Its universities and hospitals have an internationally renowned INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT NEW research base, and many products or services made in Oxford are known worldwide. DEVELOPMENT But this success brings challenges, and none greater than delivering much-needed PROMOTING affordable housing which is in such short supply in our city. SOCIAL INCLUSION AND IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE The Core Strategy is our overarching strategy for the way we will look at developing MAINTAINING A BALANCED Oxford over the next 15 years. Oxford needs to develop, while preserving those HOUSING SUPPLY aspects which make it such a wonderful place to live and work. The Core Strategy STRENGTHENING will help to manage change sympathetically and will help deliver this Council’s vision PROSPERITY for growth and regeneration in Oxford. It sets out policies and proposals relating to IMPLEMENTING AND MONITORING THE many of the Council’s priorities. These include: CORE STRATEGY • New housing and regeneration at Barton; • Economic growth and supporting employment at the Northern Gateway; • The continuing renaissance of the West End of the City centre; • A new district centre at the heart of Blackbird Leys and upgrading of the Cowley centre. I believe the Core Strategy does this in a way which protects Oxford’s key environmental assets. We are avoiding development on the floodplain and areas of high ecological interest; we are protecting Oxford’s heritage and the views of the historic core; and we are promoting high-quality urban design in both the public and private realm. 3 The adoption of the Core Strategy marks the culmination of a process that has witnessed extensive consultation and dialogue with a wide range of individuals, organisations and interest groups. This has been a lengthy process and we have had some robust debates, reflecting how much people care about this great city. We will now take forward and develop other more detailed plans within the Oxford Local Development Framework. We will continue to actively consult the public on these documents as we progress with planning the future shape of Oxford. We will also seek to implement the Core Strategy by working with a range of partner organisations. We are certain to achieve more through working with all our partners than we could ever hope to on our own. I would like to thank all those who have contributed to the development of this Core Strategy. I believe that their efforts have helped ensure that it provides an excellent framework for achieving a sustainable and prosperous future for Oxford. Councillor Ed Turner, Deputy Leader and City Executive Board Member for Finance and Efficiency Oxford Core Strategy 2026 Adopted March 2011 4 Figure 1: Key diagram Oxford City Council SPATIAL PORTRAIT VISION AND OBJECTIVES THE SPATIAL INTRODUCTION STRATEGY AND STRATEGIC LOCATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT Figure 2: Core Strategy Stages of Core Strategy preparation RESPONDING TO timetable CLIMATE CHANGE PROVIDING i. Oxford City Council published Oxford 2026: Core Strategy June - July 2006 Consultation INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT NEW Preferred Options in March 2007 and Further Preferred Options on Issues and Options DEVELOPMENT in March 2008 to seek your views on how Oxford should plan PROMOTING for, and manage growth and development up to 2026. We had March - May 2007 SOCIAL INCLUSION AND IMPROVING a good response to these consultations. Consultation on Preferred QUALITY OF LIFE Options and Sustainability Appraisal documents MAINTAINING A BALANCED ii. Following these stages, new legislation was introduced that HOUSING SUPPLY changed the way consultation works for development plan March - April 2008 Consultation on Further STRENGTHENING documents. Transitional arrangements for the new legislation Preferred Options and PROSPERITY have allowed previous consultations to remain valid under the Sustainability Appraisal IMPLEMENTING AND Addendum MONITORING THE new arrangements. The Core Strategy Proposed Submission CORE STRATEGY document became the next and final stage in the consultation Sept-Oct 2008 process. We published a final draft document in September Publication of the Proposed Submission and 2008 to invite representations on the soundness of the spatial Sustainability Appraisal strategy and policies. However following a meeting with the report Examination Inspector, we produced a set of proposed changes to the submitted document. These changes added more detail November 2008 Submission of the Core but they did not make any fundamental changes to the original Strategy and final strategy. All representations relating to the Proposed Submission Sustainability Appraisal report Core Strategy (September 2008), the Proposed Changes to the Submission Core Strategy (April 2009) and the Further Proposed July-Sept 2009 and Sept 2010 5 Changes to the Submission Core Strategy (April 2010) were Independent examination of the Core Strategy taken into account at the Core Strategy examination. March 2011 The Core Strategy and the Adoption of the Core Strategy Local Development Framework iii. The Core Strategy sets out the spatial planning framework for the development of Oxford up to 2026 and is the principal document in Oxford’s Local Development Framework (LDF). The Core Strategy sets out the scale and general location of future development, and policies to deliver the Core Strategy vision and objectives for the next 20 years. Some policies within the Oxford Local Plan 2001-2016 have been superseded by Core Strategy policies (see Appendix 2) but many will be ‘saved’ pending the adoption of future Development Plan Documents (DPDs). A list of saved policies will be published and updated. iv. The Core Strategy contains a clear vision, objectives and a spatial strategy for Oxford. It also includes