- Date of Article
- Aug 12 2020
- Sector
- Planning & development
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James is a member of the southern planning and development team working out of the Oxford office. He assists in all matters associated with strategic and immediate development land opportunities and helps private and public sector clients in the delivery of development projects across the south of England.
James is Chairman of Carter Jonas. Formerly Head of the Planning & Development Division, James advises clients on proposed development projects throughout the south of England with nearly 30 years of experience in residential and mixed use development. This includes site identification, project management of planning and development strategies, valuation and viability appraisals, marketing and sale of development opportunities. He has specific expertise in option, promotion and other development agreements, joint ventures and landowner equalisation agreements. James has been involved in sites ranging from new settlements to city centre regeneration and smaller provincial and rural schemes, and also provides expert witness and independent expert valuation services for dispute resolution.
Steven is Partner and Head of Planning Southern Region and is based in our Oxford office.
Cherwell District Council has recently launched a public consultation on a new Local Plan. This will be called the Local Plan 2040.
The Council’s first step has been to publish a Community Involvement Paper, which identifies some of the issues that a new Local Plan may need to address, although it does not detail any proposals or policy options at this stage. Written responses to the detail of this paper are now invited.
In addition to this, the Council is also undertaking a ‘Call for Sites’ exercise as a part of a review of both its Housing and Employment Land Availability Assessment (HELAA) and its Brownfield Land Register (BLR).
This is an open invitation to landowners, developers and community groups, who are interested in having land considered for a range of different uses, to submit specific information on sites they would like assessed. It will require the preparation and submission of a written representation, together with an appropriately scaled OS map showing the boundaries of any sites submitted.
Opportunities will emerge from this process for housing and commercial development. If you own land with potential for development within the district, get in touch with our planning and development experts.
The Council is looking for land, both greenfield and brownfield, that meets the following criteria:
- Located in Cherwell District Council’s administrative boundary
- Of at least 0.25 hectares (0.62 acres) in area
- Able to accommodate five or more dwellings if proposed for residential use
- Able to accommodate 500sqm or more if proposed for employment space (e.g. commercial development).
This information will be used to help planning officers understand which sites across the district may be available for development.
The deadline for submissions is 11.59 pm on Monday 14 September 2020.
This may represent your opportunity to realise the development potential of your land.
About Carter Jonas
We have experts dedicated to helping landowners secure planning permission for development. In Oxfordshire alone we have secured planning permission for 8,500 new homes and one million sq ft of commercial space within the past five years.
For further information, or to speak directly to one of our Planning & Development professionals, please contact us.