Warneford Meadow Development Update!
April 4, 2007
The Oxford Strategic Development Control Committee (SDCC) considered three applications pertinent to the Warneford Meadow on Wednesday 25th April 2007. Following less than an hour of discussions about the nature and process of the planning applications for Park Hospital, Warneford Hospital and Warneford Meadow, Oxford City Council’s Strategic Development Control Committee unanimously adopted the following resolution.
1. To decline to comment on the principle of development on the three sites
2. To advise the applicants to withdraw the applications
3. For the Planning Officers to take account of the Oxford Local Plan and new material changes since the plan’s inception
4. In the light of the above that the Planning Office advises the applicants to submit new applications
Finance of the Trusts was generally considered not to be a planning consideration and Councillors found no clarity in the process, nor in the applications themselves.
The immediate follow-on has been that the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental health Trust and the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust has appealed against the SDCC’s non-determination.
The Residents’ Associations have objected to this appeal. To see a summary of these objections click here Summary objections; and for the full paper, click here Full objections paper.
