MCNP March 2017 update

Kirtlington refusal

Cherwell District Council’s Planning Committee took the unusual step of going against the recommendations of their own officers’ report on February 16th. A scheme for 10 dwellings at Mill Lane (shown below) was refused outline planning permission by unanimous vote of the Committee’s elected members. Kirtlington Parish Council had objected, and MCNP had also submitted a letter of objection.…

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MCNP December update

After months of work by Forum members we now have 24 draft Policies that we hope reflect the major concerns of our community. Read them on the MCNP website here.

You need to know that there are many constraints on what we can say in neighbourhood plan policies, and on how they are written. We have to work within the the existing statutory framework at national level: we cannot oppose “sustainable development”.…

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