This runs through the provisional results of the recent Bloxham Neighbourhood Plan Questionnaire

1. Bloxham Neighbourhood Plan
What you told us
12th
June 2014

2. Planning Law Changes
Assumption in favour of
development

3. All development is permitted
IF:
•No Local Plan
and / or
•No 5 year supply of housing land

4. All development is permitted
IF:
•No Local Plan
and / or
•No 5 year supply of housing land
Appeal is
upheld.

5. What’s the new Local Plan Schedule?
• The CDC Local Plan suffered a
major set-back last week.
• Realistically – another year –
maybe next March – May.
• That’s another year of a
licence for developers to
pretty much build anything
anywhere.

6. How does this affect our plan?
• Basically the N.P. is a fine-tuning of the
Local Plan for a particular neighbourhood.
• It cannot conflict with the Local Plan.
• CDC are likely to want to combine our
referendum with the May 2015 elections.
• So – don’t hold your breath!

7. What can we do?

8. What’s a Neighbourhood Plan
It’s about where we put things and what they are like.

9. What a Neighbourhood Plan isn’t
• It cannot “magic” cash or land for facilities
• It doesn’t offer a “best of all worlds!”
– Cash follows development
– No development : no cash
• Much of the cash that comes with development goes
direct to OCC and CDC. They won’t necessarily spend
it as the Parish would.

10. Why the questionnaire?
• Everything we propose in the N.P. will be
challenged by developers and we have to be
able to justify in terms of
–Factual Evidence
–Community engagement

11. Factual Evidence
• The working groups have gathered together
an enormous amount of factual evidence.
• Three reports totalling around 500 pages

12. Community Engagement
Meetings & drop-ins

13. Community Engagement
Questionnaires
1.Young people’s questionnaire (online)
2.Business Questionnaire (online)
3.Main Questionnaire (on paper)

14. Young people’s Questionnaire
• Mostly responses – very similar to adults:
– Too many new houses
– Dislike the style of the houses
– Too much traffic
Etc
• Did include:
– few unexpected
– a few a bit too honest

15. What building is it most important
we don’t lose?

16. Where do you find out what
happens in Bloxham?
• Bloxham Broadsheet (paper edition)
• Bloxham Broadsheet (online edition)
• Banbury Guardian
• Social networks (FaceBook, Twitter etc)
• Other _______________________
• Other - Nothing happens in Bloxham!

17. The main questionnaire

18. How many new homes?

19. What type of developments

20. Protect historic views?

21. Preserve rural character?

22. Changes in housing density?

23. Materials that fit in?

24. Lean towards rural or urban?

25. Energy efficiency?

26. On-premises parking

27. Design in home-office capability?

28. How many will want to downsize

29. Criteria for a downsize home?

30. Travel: getting to work

31. Travel: shopping & entertainment in
Banbury

32. Travel: getting to school

33. Travel: why by car to school?

34. Location of new housing and Schools

35. How many parking spaces?

36. How many vehicles per household?

37. How many vehicles per household?

38. Your experience of utilities?

39. What types of new businesses desirable?

40. The capacity of the primary school

41. The capacity of the primary school
We will be unable to do anything about this!
Developers – “It’s sustainable because there is a
village school and we’ll pay for extra places.”
Inspector – “OK - so not a problem:
approved – of course!”

42. The capacity of the primary school
We will be unable to do anything about this!
Developers – “It’s sustainable because
there is a school and we’ll pay for extra
places.”
Inspector – “OK - so not a problem:
approved – of course!”
OCC – “Thanks for the money. We’ll provide
extra places but not in Bloxham.”
Bloxham – “ Apparently this is called planning!”

43. Usage of outdoor recreation spaces?

44. Who needs more recreation facilities?

45. What sort of recreation facilities?

46. Should we protect any outdoor spaces?
• We can nominate a small number of “green
areas” to be protected in perpetuity.
– Red Lion Gardens
– Bloxham School field onto Banbury Rd
– The Jubilee Fields
– The Recreation Grounds

47. Usage of Indoor Facilities

48. Could Bloxham support another indoor
venue?

49. Where does all this leave things?
• All of the important recommendations of the
working groups are well supported.
• On recreation we need the Trusts, PC, the
churches and the NP groups to come together
to produce a whole village recreation strategy
that guides how cash is spent.
• We need to press ahead with policy writing
understanding there are some things we can do
nothing about in the present planning system.

50. What have we learned?
Grant me
– The courage to change the things I can change;
– The serenity to accept the things I can’t change;
– The wisdom to know the difference between the two.
NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING IS PROVIDING
PLENTY OF PRACTICE AT ALL THREE!

51. Thank you for listeningThank you for listening