Wantage Neighbourhood Plan. The Plan was first drafted in 2014/15, with the help of the Campaign Group but was rejected by a planning inspector in 2016. The updated Plan has been modified to amend or remove the policies that were deemed unacceptable by the Inspector, but disappointingly we believe that all other policies remain unchanged.
There is a copy of the draft plan (before changes as a result of the last survey in 2021) on the Town Council website.

The plan was developed in 2014/15: show detail

Only 11 policies remain in the plan. They are:

Views of residents were last sought in 2014 – since then we have almost 1,000 more homes occupied in Wantage and another 1,500 in the OX12 catchment area and a significant change in the population.
Those new residents have been denied their views on what the plan for the town should include.
This plan was written in 2015 and many things have changed since then, including the approval of Vale Local Plan Part 2 with many policies which cover similar things to those in the neighbourhood plan.
Some of the policies refer to the “use classes” which guide the use of land and buildings. These “use classes” changed in September 2020 and the plan still refers to the old “classes”. We’re not sure what effect this would have on the policies but they are probably out of date.
All the maps in the plan relate to 2015 and therefore exclude several of the major new developments in the town.
The concept plans for green infrastructure links and cycle ways include potential routes through some of these new developments which can no longer be achieved.
One of the policies relates protecting Assets of Community Value and the ambition (when the plan was originally written) was for several assets in the town to be designated. Yet no record of any designations can be found.
We think the Neighbourhood Plan needs a refresh before it is submitted.