Barton Area Action Plan

The City Council wants to provide more housing in Oxford so it has produced a Core Strategy to help determine where and when this can be built. A key site for new housing is located in the north east of the city between Barton and Northway.

As well as helping to address the city's housing needs by providing around 1,000 new homes, the development provides an opportunity to bring benefits to neighbouring communities. New transport links will better integrate housing on the northern side of the A40 with the rest of the city and new community facilities will benefit new and existing residents. With more people living in the area there are improved prospects for more viable services and businesses. There are also opportunities to deliver regeneration benefits to existing neighbouring communities.

The City Council is producing an Area Action Plan (AAP) to set the planning policy framework for the site and the surrounding area. The AAP will form part of the Local Development Framework.

Submission of the AAP for examination

The Barton Area Action Plan was submitted to the Secretary of State on 13 April 2012. Included with the submission were all comments received during the consultation which took place between 10 February and 23 March 2012.  

The submission documents (including the representations made during the consultation period) can be viewed on our Barton Area Action Plan Examination pages or at City Council offices and local libraries. See statement below for details:

Statement of Fact That Documents are Available for Inspection (64kB PDF)

The Secretary of State has appointed Inspector Shelagh Bussey DIPTP DIPEM MA PHD MRTPI to conduct the Examination to determine whether the Barton AAP is sound.

The Council has appointed an independent Programme Officer to assist the Inspector and liaise with the Council and participants. 

She is Mrs Katharine Makant and her contact details are as follows:

Email:  Kmakant@oxford.gov.uk
Mobile: 07771 657597
Usual Hours of Work:  10am to 4.00pm on Wed and Fri in Oxford City Council Offices and working from home as required.

The Programme Officer maintains the Examination page where more details on the examination can be found.

Next steps

The Planning Inspector will hold an examination of the AAP in summer 2012. The Inspector will decide on the key issues resulting from the consultation and will set the questions to be discussed at the examination. The Inspector will also invite organisations and individuals to attend based on the comments made during this consultation.

At the end of the examination the Planning Inspector will prepare a report for the City Council. The report may propose that amendments are made to the AAP before it is finalised (or 'adopted') late in 2012.

Timetable

The italicised stages are provisional and subject to change.

Finding out more

If you have any questions on the document or the process please get in touch with the Planning Policy Team:

Email: planningpolicy@oxford.gov.uk

Planning Policy
City Development
Oxford City Council
109-113 St. Aldate's Chambers
Oxford
OX1 1DS

Barton AAP Proposed Submission

Consultation on the Proposed Submission version of the Barton Area Action Plan took place between 10 February and 23 March 2012.

Barton AAP Proposed Submission (Feb 2012) (14.6MB PDF)
Barton AAP Sustainability Appraisal Update (Feb 2012) (1.9MB PDF)
Barton AAP Habitats Regulation Assessment (Feb 2012) (303kB PDF)
Barton AAP Proposed Submission Summary Leaflet (1.3MB PDF)
Statement of Representations Procedure (97kB PDF)
Statutory Notice (62kB PDF)

Representations made on the consultation documents can be viewed here:

Barton AAP summary respondent list 33kB PDF)
RB1-10 (4.4MB PDF)
RB11-20 (7.5MB PDF)
RB21-30 (6.5MB PDF)
RB31-40 (7.6MB PDF)
RB41-50 (5.7MB PDF)
RB51-60 (13.3MB PDF)
RB61-70 (4.4MB PDF)
RB71-80 (8.2MB PDF)
RB81-90 (17.4MB PDF)
RB91-100 (14.2MB PDF)
RB101-105 (5.8MB PDF)

Barton AAP Preferred Options

The earlier Preferred Options document was published for consultation in May and June 2011.

AAP Preferred Options Document (14.3 MB PDF)
Barton Sustainability Appraisal Preferred Options (895 KB PDF)

The results of the Preferred Options consultation are set out in the following report:

Preferred Options – Public Consultation report (2.9MB PDF)

Barton AAP Issues Consultation

Our first consultation exercise was carried out during June and July 2010. The views expressed in response to the Issues document are set out in this report:

Issues Document - Public Consultation Report (2.7MB PDF)
Issues Document (6.93MB PDF) (please note that this consultation has now closed)

A summary of the comments received on the Sustainability Appraisal Scoping report is also available:

Responses to Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report (55kB PDF)

Supporting Documents

To inform the work on the Area Action Plan we have started to compile an evidence base. The following technical studies are currently available to download:

Published February 2012

Links with Other Relevant Documents (Feb 2012) (Feb 2012) (14.6MB PDF)
Retail Assessment (Feb 2012) (Feb 2012) (218kB PDF)
Sewer Impact Study (Feb 2012) (1.4MB PDF)
Surface and Foul Water Drainage Overview (Feb 2012) (Feb 2012) (94kB PDF)
WSP Local Transport Model Validation report (Jan 2012) (23.1MB PDF)
WSP Transport Technical Note 1, Trip Generation (Jan 2012) (91kB PDF)
WSP Transport Technical Note 2, Residential Trip Distribution (Jan 2012) (90kB PDF)
WSP Transport Technical Note 3, Primary School Trip Generation (Jan 2012) (83kB PDF)
WSP Transport Technical Note 4, Foodstore Trip Generation (Jan 2012) (84kB PDF)
WSP Transport Technical Note 5, Traffic Growth (Jan 2012) (85kB PDF)
WSP Transport Technical Note 6, Interim Model Results (Feb 2012) (1.4MB PDF)

Published December 2011

Equalities Impact Assessment (December 2011) (160kB PDF)

Published May 2011

Barton Fields Further Biodiversity Surveys Oct 2010 (0.97 MB PDF)
Barton Pavilion Bat inspection Dec 2010 (280 KB PDF)
Land at Barton Viability Study (1.12 MB PDF)
Preliminary Transport Technical Appraisal Report and Figures (5.54 MB PDF)
Preliminary Transport Technical Appraisal Report - Appendices (5.44 MB PDF)
Transport Technical Note 1 (2.90 MB PDF)
Transport Technical Note 1 - Figure 1 (1.17 MB PDF)
Transport Technical Note 1 - Figure 2 (944 KB PDF)
Transport Technical Note 1 - Figure 3 (0.99 MB PDF)
Transport Technical Note 2 (1.98 MB PDF)
Transport Technical Note 3 (800 KB PDF)
Transport Technical Note 4 (44.9 KB PDF)
Transport Technical Note 5 (2.70 MB PDF)
Transport Technical Note 6 (208 KB PDF)
Transport Technical Note 6 - Appendices 1 - 4 (3.63 MB PDF)
Transport Technical Note 6 - Appendix 5 (6.42 MB PDF)
West Waddy ADP Ruskin Fields Development Promotion (6.10 MB PDF)

Earlier Documents

Biodiversity Assessment (5.45MB PDF)
Badger Survey (7.8MB PDF)
Bat Survey (1.0MB PDF)
Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment (5.7MB PDF)*
Archaeology Assessment (6.33MB PDF)

* Please note that the Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment was re-issued in November 2010 to correct an error in the original document. The area of Flood Zone 3A and Flood Zone 2 within the site have been corrected, along with the percentages of the site that these make up. These changes affect the text in Section 3.3 on Page 16, and Section 6.1 on Page 22. This has no effect on the rest of the document as the correct figures were used for the original flood-risk modelling.

This evidence base will be expanded, updated and added to as the process continues.

Page last reviewed 1 May 2012