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Planning

Oxford Local Plan 2001-2016

The Oxford Local Plan 2001-2016 was adopted on the 11 Nov 2005. The Local Plan sets out the detailed framework for our land use policies. All planning applications are considered against the policies of the Local Plan. The adopted Local Plan must be read in conjunction with the saved policies direction letter below. Some Local Plan policies have now been superseded by the Core Strategy and the West End Area Action Plan.

The Local Plan text can be downloaded and viewed here:

  Title page and Foreword (107kB PDF)
Section 1.0 Introduction (72kB PDF)
Section 2.0 Core Policies (159kB PDF)
Section 3.0 Transport (114kB PDF)
Section 4.0 Natural Environment (122kB PDF)
Section 5.0 Historic Environment (78kB PDF)
Section 6.0 Housing Provision (59kB PDF)
Section 7.0 Housing Policies (123kB PDF)
Section 8.0 Economy (72kB PDF)
Section 9.0 Health and Hospitals (59kB PDF)
Section 10.0 Education (82kB PDF)
Section 11.0 Sport, Outdoor Rec, Community (95kB PDF)
Section 12.0 Retail and Commercial Leisure (108kB PDF)
Section 13.0 Tourism and the Arts (63kB PDF)
Section 14.0 Development Sites (299kB PDF)
  Appendices and Glossary (974kB PDF)


Saved Policies

The links below will take you to a list of the Local Plan policies that remain saved, together with those that have been superseded either by the adoption of the Core Strategy or the West End Area Action Plan. There is also a list of those Local Plan policies that expired on 11 November 2008 (three years after the adoption of the Local Plan):

PDF icon Schedule of saved Local Plan policies (90kB PDF)
PDF icon Schedule of superseded Local Plan policies (51kB PDF)
PDF icon Schedule of Local Plan policies that expired on 11 November 2008 (17kB PDF)
PDF icon Saved Policies direction letter (48kB PDF)

Proposals Map

The Proposals Map produced when the Local Plan was adopted has been updated by the adoption of the Core Strategy and the West End Area Action Plan.

Hard copies of the Local Plan text and Proposals Map are available for purchase.

Hard copies can be viewed in our St Aldate's Chambers office and the Central Library at the Westgate Shopping Centre.

Please note: the version of the Local Plan displayed here is for informational purposes only. The legal copy of the Plan remains the paper copy printed by Oxford City Council. If in doubt, or in cases of discrepancy, please contact our Planning Policy team for advice using the contact details on the right of this page.

Proposals Map

The Proposals Map accompanies saved policies in the Oxford Local Plan 2001-2016, which was adopted on 11 Nov 2005, together with the adopted Core Strategy and the adopted West End Area Action Plan.

Page last reviewed 19 March 2012

Planning Policy Team

St Aldate's Chambers

109 St Aldate's

Oxford

OX1 1DS

01865 252847


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