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

Supplementary Planning Documents

The Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) are intended to expand upon policy or provide further detail to policies in development plan documents. They can demonstrate through illustrations, text and practical examples how policies can be taken forward. Supplementary Planning Documents were previously called Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPGs) - see our page on Supplementary Planning Guidance for details about the Vale's adopted SPGs.

The first Supplementary Planning Document the Council prepared is the Supplementary Planning Document Open Space, Sport and Recreation Future Provision. This identifies the key questions facing the Council on the future provision of open space, sport and recreation facilities and provides a vision and delivery plan for tackling them. This SPD was adopted by Council on 16th July 2008. The document and associated documentation can be downloaded from the right of the page.

The council has now adopted two more SPDs - Residential Design Guide and Sustainable Design and Construction. Consultation on these two documents took place between 27 May and 4 September and were adopted by council on 9 December 2009. These documents can be downloaded from the right of the page. The Residential Design Guide still has some minor changes to be made and the final version will be made available here as soon as possible. Please note this is a large document containing a number of photographs so may take a while to download.