Your Plan For The Future - November 2025

Preferred Spatial Options Consultation

This consultation marks the next important step in Plan making process, focusing on our Preferred Spatial Options for the West Oxfordshire Local Plan 2043.

While this is not the final Draft Plan, this consultation represents a key milestone, as it outlines the Council’s current thinking on where new development, including housing and employment, should be located.

Building on previous consultations, this Preferred Spatial Options Paper sets out the Council's emerging approach, including:

1) Our proposal to extend the end-date of the new Local Plan to 2043

2) A revised settlement hierarchy

3) An updated spatial strategy

4) Areas of land that have been identified as having potential for housing and economic development.

You can view the consultation document and add your comments by clicking on the Feedback icon. We will also provide an interactive map where you can navigate to an area of interest and make a comment.

We are also developing an evidence base to support the development of the Local Plan. The latest evidence base documents, including Sustainability Appraisal and an Interim Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (HELAA), are available to view under 'Other Information'.

You can also see details of our in person events on the Other Information page.

What happens next?

All comments will be carefully considered, alongside further evidence and analysis to help inform the next steps towards a full Draft Local Plan in the new year.