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

Summary of Comments to Preferred Options Report

Public consultation on the Preferred Options Report has now finished and all the comments received will be carefully considered before preparing the draft Core Strategy. This will be published in January 2010 and sent to the Government who will appoint an inspector to examine it.

The public responses made to the Preferred options have been summarised and set out in two main documents; Proteus Summary Report and Summary Schedule of Comments which can be dowloaded in sections below. Comments have also been further summarised into the main points raised by respondents. A full list of all the respondants showing each of their reference numbers may be downloaded.

• Introduction
• The Vale Today
• Vision and Objectives
• Spatial Strategy
• Employment
• Shopping and Town Centres
• Transport
• Places - Abingdon
• Places - Wantage and Grove
• Places - The area west of Didcot 
• Places - Botley
• Places - Faringdon
• The Rural Areas
• The Oxford Green Belt
• The Upper Thames Reservoir
• Building Communities
• Supporting Prosperity
• Delivering and Protecting Quality Environments
• Glossary and Key Diagram
• Appendices
• Miscellaneous comments 
  
• Sustainability Appraisal 

We recieved a large number of comments about housing which have been summarised separately. These can be downloaded below.

• Housing in general
• Housing in Abingdon
• Housing in Wantage and Grove
• Housing in the Didcot area
• Housing in Botley
• Housing in Faringdon
• Housing in Rural Areas

We also consulted on our evidence base and summaries of the comments received can be downloaded from the evidence base consultation page.