Vale of White Horse District Council
Abbey House, Abbey Close,
Abingdon, OX14 3JE
Email: comments@whitehorsedc.gov.uk
Telephone: 01235 520202

Vale of White Horse District Council

The Core Strategy

The first policy document that the council is preparing as part of the Local Development Framework is the Core Strategy. This will replace the Local Plan, and will set out the spatial vision, spatial objectives, policies and a monitoring and implementation framework for the Vale. The Core Strategy will be used to help determine future planning applications.

For the first stage in the preparation of the Core Strategy the Council published an Issues and Options document called 'Your Vale - Your Future' for public consultation in autumn 2007. This report set out some of the issues we think we will be facing in the future and some possible options for tackling them. 

The council is required to carry out a sustainability appraisal of all development plan documents. This involves an assessment of the sustainability effects of all the policies and proposals contained within each document so that any undesireable impacts can be reduced or removed. The sustainability appraisal process will run alongside the production of the relevant document and will be open to consultation at the same times. 

The Core Strategy scoping report, which was published by the Council in March 2007, and the Core Strategy Sustainability Statement, which was published in November 2007, can both be downloaded from the right of the page.

The council then published the Preferred Options document which was out for consultation in January and February 2009. A summary of the comments recieved can be downlaoded from the Preferred Options consultation page.

As a result of your comments we have done further work and consulted you on some additional matters which will help us to finalise the draft core strategy. To read about these additional matters please visit the Core Strategy: Additional Consultation page.