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46 VISION FOR ICKFORD : ICKFORD NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN CONSULTATION REPORT

Dear Gillian,

Sorry for the late response to your email.

Waterperry produced a Village Plan in 2014, which was not a Neighbourhood Plan.
We have been considering doing a Neighbourhood Plan, but have come stuck due to
the lack of any potential parishioner involvement. Even with the prospect of OxCams
(Oxford to Cambridge Expressway [in effect a dual carriageway or motorway]) via
Aylesbury (one option) coming close to Waterperry Village, and also potentially
very close to your village, this has not seen anyone coming forward. We have been
told a Neighbourhood Plan could give weight to prevent it coming near our villages
although, as with your housing developments, probably a little late. Another advantage
of a Neighbourhood Plan is that the Parish Council would get 25% of all CIL paid on
housing developments, whereas without one it is 15% and capped to a yearly
maximum based on the number of properties paying council tax so could be
substantially less than 15%.

Personally from the knowledge I have, I would suggest you go straight for a
Neighbourhood Plan, where grants can easily be claimed to cover some, if not all, of
the costs. Hopefully, your parishioners would get involved and help in this process.
Worminghall are progressing a Neighbourhood Plan, so would be best to consult
with them.

We are not aware of anything in Waterperry that may affect Ickford. However,
aplanning application for 500 houses (could end up being more) on the Brookes Site
in Holton (Wheatley) is currently in. Brookes will be moving out within the next
few years and plan to sell the land for as much as they can via housing development.
Link to SODC Planning Application within Holton Parish is http://
www.southoxon.gov.uk/ccm/support/Main.jsp?MODULE=ApplicationDetails&REF=P17/
S4254/O. Entrances to this development would be on the Waterperry Road at Holton
(as currently. which goes to Waterperry and then Worminghall) and by the A40 Exit
into Wheatley/Holton. This planning application is in addition to the houses currently
being built in Wheatley on the other side of the A40 near the Doctor’s Surgery.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,
Adrian Cave
Clerk to Waterperry [with Thomley] Parish Council

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