Eye and Dunsden: Focused Consultation on Modifications in response to Sections 98 & 99 of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023

Overview

Eye and Dunsden Parish Council submitted their draft neighbourhood plan to South Oxfordshire District Council in October 2025.

We carried out a period of publicity on the draft neighbourhood plan and supporting documents in December 2025. This gave residents and statutory consultees an opportunity to comment on the draft plan. The responses to the December 2025 publicity period were submitted for examination and published on our website.

Andrew Ashcroft has been appointed to undertake the examination of the plan, which is currently underway.

The examiner’s role is to make recommendations on the draft plan, and ultimately recommend if the plan should proceed to referendum.

On 25 March 2026, the Government commenced several provisions of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 (LURA), including Sections 98 and 99, which introduce changes relevant to neighbourhood planning. The Government did not introduce transitional arrangements for these provisions, meaning that they apply to all neighbourhood plans currently in progress.

The District Council has advised the Parish Council to update their Basic Conditions Statement and Neighbourhood Plan to respond to these changes and set out that a further focused six-week consultation should be held, run by the District Council, inviting comments solely on this matter. The examiner has confirmed that the examination of the Plan will continue whilst this matter is addressed.

The District Council is therefore inviting comments on the updated Basic Conditions Statement and updates made to the Neighbourhood Plan from Thursday 30 April to 11:59pm on Monday 15 June 2026.

A Modifications Document has been provided setting out the specific changes made in response to these changes. Please note that only comments relating to the changes listed in the Modifications Document will be considered.

Further background documents and appendices can be viewed on the Eye and Dunsden Neighbourhood Plan page on our website

This consultation is separated into three sections: 

Part A - Personal details

Part B - Your comments

Part C - Our commitment to equal access for all

Personal data

All personal data will be held securely by the council and examiner in line with the Data Protection Act 2018. Comments submitted by individuals will be published on our website alongside their name. No other contact details will be published. Comments submitted by businesses, organisations or agents will be published in full, excluding identifying information of any individual employees. Further information on how we store personal data is provided in our privacy policy.

Part C is for monitoring purposes only and all questions are optional. The information provided in this section will not be linked to your submission, shared with the independent examiner or outside the council, nor will it be published as part of the consultation results.

If you are happy for the councils to use your personal data and any special category data (equality questions) that you choose to provide for this consultation, please click the link in the box below to provide your response.