How to object to the OUFC Planning Application: General Guidance (2025)

The deadline for comments is 8 February 2025.

Shortcuts:  Planning Application - 24/00539/F; FoSB Key Points page

• Only material planning considerations can be taken into account by a planning committee when assessing a planning application (we refer to these as Key Points:  see (2) below for more on this).  Typically, these can include (but are not limited to):  

• Design, appearance and materials
• Parking provision
• Highway safety
• Traffic congestion
• Environmental pollution e.g. noise
• Drainage and flood risk
• Landscape impact
• Nature conservation
• Impact on trees
• Allocated development sites identified in the Local Development Plan and or Neighbourhood Development Plans
• Government policy and guidance

• Your response will hold more weight if it relates to the above points.
• Reponses from different individuals in the same household count so please encourage friends and family members to respond as well and share with other groups.

Our Key Points page can be found here and covers useful points you may wish to raise. PLEASE DO NOT directly copy and paste the wording – it may damage our case if responses look scripted. Instead, choose some of the areas, and use your own words.  You don’t need to cover everything!

In summary, we believe the following are the most relevant but please raise any and all considerations that you feel are important.

• Traffic congestion and road closures
• Parking
• Nature conservation/biodiversity/impact on trees
• Community and economic benefits
• Landscape effects

We will update this section with links to comments posted that may be helpful to provide more information.

We are still waiting for OUFC’s agents to provide additional information on the following:

• Green Belt
• Alternative Sites Assessment
  

We will provide guidance on this once we have seen it and will ask you to comment again please!

The application can be viewed on the Cherwell District Council Plannning Register: Planning Application - 24/00539/F.

The "Supporting Documents" section contains the application details and supporting documents along with responses received so far from consultees and the public. There is a huge amount of information and it would take days to read through and absorb all of it. To save time, just view our Key Points page which will tell you all you need to know. You may additionally wish to look at areas of interest or expertise to see the detail.

WE RECOMMEND that you can email your comments to:  planning@cherwell-dc.gov.uk   making sure that you include the reference (24/00539/F), your name, address and a statement that you OBJECT along with the reasons why.

Alternatively, responses can be submitted by clicking on the ‘Comment on this application’ button. You can either type comments directly into this form, or save your comments as a PDF to attach.  To avoid losing partly completed comments you may want to draft them on a Word document and then copy to the form.

If you want help, please email stratfieldbrakefriends@gmail.com

Thank you for taking the time to read this and respond to this consultation.