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This section sets out our latest community engagement events as well as how we have engaged and involved the local community.

Community engagement events in April 2024 to consult on revised proposal for Chalgrove Airfield

Join Homes England to view our revised plans for a 21st Century Market Town at Chalgrove Airfield, building new homes, creating new jobs, and providing new infrastructure.

A series of community engagement events will take place this April to allow current and future residents to view and provide feedback on the revised proposals for this existing allocated site at Chalgrove Airfield, learn more about our vision for a sustainable new community on previously developed land, and speak to representatives from the team. 

Located in South Oxfordshire, Chalgrove Airfield is an existing allocated site that is not in the Oxford Green Belt. The proposals will support the district to meet its identified housing need with the provision of new homes, 35% of which will be affordable, as well as providing new infrastructure and boosting the local economy. 

For individuals that cannot make the in person or online events, all the engagement information and a Frequently Asked Questions document will be available here from Thursday 18 April 2024 to 5pm on Friday 17 May 2024 when the consultation period will end.

The times and locations of the events are: 

Thursday 18 April 2024 
2.30pm to 7pm
Stadhampton Village Hall
St John the Baptist Church, The GreenStadhampton, OX44 7UA 

Friday 19 April 
11am to 3pm 
John Hampden Hall 
High Street, Chalgrove, Oxford, OX44 7SS

Saturday 20  April
10am to 2pm
John Hampden Hall 
High Street, Chalgrove, Oxford, OX44 7SS

Tuesday 30th April  
6pm to 7pm
Online engagement event 
Register your attendance for the online engagement webinar.

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Plans for Chalgrove include: 

  • 3,400 new homes
  • Two primary schools (three-form entry)
  • One secondary school to allow for the expansion of Icknield Community College 
  • A new town centre
  • Employment and business area 
  • Biodiversity net gain through native landscaping and green community space 
  • New walking and cycle routes and active travel routes to Oxford
  • Early transport infrastructure including improvements to existing traffic flows and options for a bypass
  • Protection of Martin Baker’s operations at Chalgrove.

We hope you will be able to join one of the in-person events and to help shape the future of the new 21st Century Market Town.

Involving local communities

Homes England’s plans for Chalgrove Airfield have been shaped through comprehensive engagement with numerous stakeholders including local communities.

Through every stage of the planning and development process, we have engaged with the public and key stakeholders through events, consultations, newsletters, document sharing and team communications. This started with an Enquiry by Design event, and has continued with further discussion and consultation on our emerging plans. The consultation boards presented at the July 2018 consultation events can be downloaded here).

Homes England will work with a range of delivery partners to provide the homes, jobs and infrastructure needed. We have are already working with a number of providers to identify the necessary infrastructure for the development, and will continue to engage with different partners to ensure the vision to create a connected, active and diverse community at Chalgrove is realised.

Get Involved

The planning process for a development of this scale will include many opportunities for the public and stakeholders to have their say and contribute to discussions and conversations on the development. Key areas where you be involved include:

  • Chalgrove Airfield Design Guide: A design framework has been submitted with our outline planning application, which sets out how we propose to provide more detailed guidance to inform the detailed (reserved matters) planning applications for the site.
  • Public Realm and Traffic Calming Measures: To make the local areas more conducive to walking and cycling, Homes England has made a commitment to contributing towards traffic calming and public realm improvements. The type and scale of improvements will be developed in collaboration with local stakeholders and communities.
  • Stadhampton, Chilsehampton and Cuxham Bypasses: Homes England is now progressing the detailed design of the two bypass alignments which followed a period of engagement with landowners and community consultation in 2019. Homes England will continue to engage with landowners and local communities as we progress the detailed designs, and the public will have the opportunity to hear about the plans at a future information event, and then comment on the planning application when it is submitted.
  • Detailed (reserved matters) planning applications: At each reserved matters stage, the local community will have the opportunity to influence the final design of the development. We will involve the community ahead of any future submissions but there will also be the opportunity to engage as part of the formal planning application process.

Community Newsletters

Homes England will issue regular community newsletters to keep you up to date with our plans. These will be available below once the outline planning application for our development proposals has been validated by South Oxfordshire District Council

Local plan representations

South Oxfordshire District Council submitted its Local Plan to the Secretary of State on Friday 29 March 2019 in accordance with Regulation 22 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 for Independent Examination. Homes England submitted comments during the Publicity Period of the Local Plan 2034, which took place between 7 January – 18 February 2019. They are available to download below. More information on the local plan is available here.

Further information the South Oxfordshire Local Plan can be found here

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