Decision details

The amendment by Councillor Liz Brighouse was carried by 43 votes to 16, with 2 abstentions as follows:

Given that:

1.      SODC has not been able to come up with suggestions which would change the previously agreed Local Plan in a way which would honour the promises made to residents when they were elected.

2.      The SODC Local Plan has implications beyond the District. 

3.      The houses proposed in the Plan to be developed in Grenoble Road and the associated opening of the Cowley Branch Line will meet both the desperate need for housing close to Oxford and the need for such a development to by cognisant of the Climate Emergency.

4.      The traffic issues in Didcot need to be addressed urgently:

In the event of the receipt of an invitation by the Secretary of State to prepare or revise the South Oxfordshire Local Plan pursuant to powers under section 27A of, and paragraph 7B of Schedule A1 to, the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, Council is RECOMMENDED to accept such an invitation subject to satisfactory assurances being received in relation to the recovery of its costs. 

The procedural amendment moved by Councillor Jane Hanna at the Meeting to withdraw the Motion pending further legal advice was lost by 38 votes to 16, with 5 abstentions.

The substantive motion as amended was carried by 39 votes to 16, with 4 abstentions.

RESOLVED: (39 votes to 16, 4 abstentions)

Given that:

1.      SODC has not been able to come up with suggestions which would change the previously agreed Local Plan in a way which would honour the promises made to residents when they were elected.

2.      The SODC Local Plan has implications beyond the District. 

3.      The houses proposed in the Plan to be developed in Grenoble Road and the associated opening of the Cowley Branch Line will meet both the desperate need for housing close to Oxford and the need for such a development to by cognisant of the Climate Emergency.

4.      The traffic issues in Didcot need to be addressed urgently:

In the event of the receipt of an invitation by the Secretary of State to prepare or revise the South Oxfordshire Local Plan pursuant to powers under section 27A of, and paragraph 7B of Schedule A1 to, the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, Council is RECOMMENDED to accept such an invitation subject to satisfactory assurances being received in relation to the recovery of its costs.