Woodcote,
South Oxfordshire

The site is allocated for residential development in the South Oxfordshire Core Strategy that requires 129 new homes to be built in Woodcote between 2011 to 2027. It is also allocated in the revised Woodcote Neighbourhood Plan (WNP) (2013-2035), reference WNP2-30. The Revised Woodcote Neighbourhood Plan (2013 – 2035) was ‘made’ on 13 October 2022. It is an updated version of the first Neighbourhood Plan that was adopted in May 2014. The Plan proposes the development of 129 homes in the Plan period. The overall total of 129 homes consists of 76 homes which were allocated in the previous Woodcote Neighbourhood Plan 2011 – 2017 and 53 additional homes were allocated in this review of the Plan.

Lone Star have submitted an outline application for 30 dwellings and the provision of a community car park at land to the north of Reading Road, Woodcote. The site comprises of 1.55 hectares of agricultural land. The site does not contain any designated heritage assets, such as scheduled monuments, listed buildings, registered parks and gardens or registered battlefields, and it does not extend within any conservation areas. Around the Site there are 14 listed buildings with the Grade II Listed Church Farmhouse and associated farm buildings within c. 100 metres to the west of the site.

This outline planning application proposes a scheme that will deliver 30 homes in accordance with the adopted South Oxfordshire District Local Plan and Woodcote Neighbourhood Plan.