Shellingford Neighbourhood Forum Designation Consultation

Overview

Vale of White Horse District Council has received an application from a community group in Shellingford to designate a Neighbourhood Forum for the Shellingford Neighbourhood Area.

A Neighbourhood Forum for Shellingford was originally designated in December 2020, alongside the designation of the Shellingford Neighbourhood Area. As neighbourhood forum designations are valid for a period of five years, that designation expired in December 2025.

Shellingford does not have a parish council and is instead governed by a parish meeting. In the absence of a parish council, a Neighbourhood Forum must be designated to act as the qualifying body responsible for preparing a neighbourhood plan. To be designated, a forum must comprise at least 21 members and be representative of the local community.

Following the expiry of the previous designation, a local community group has applied for the designation of a new Neighbourhood Forum covering the Shellingford Neighbourhood Area. The proposed forum intends to continue the neighbourhood planning work previously undertaken within the area and support the preparation of a neighbourhood plan for Shellingford.

If designated, the Neighbourhood Forum will be the sole body authorised to undertake neighbourhood planning activities within the Shellingford Neighbourhood Area until the designation expires or is withdrawn.

The Council is now inviting comments on the proposed designation of the Shellingford Neighbourhood Forum. The consultation will run for six weeks, from Tuesday 10 November to 11.59pm on Tuesday 22 December 2026.

You can view the neighbourhood forum designation documents in the Related Documents section.

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. Details within your comments referring to specific addresses may be published where these are relevant to the planning matters being consulted on. No other contact details will be published. Comments submitted on behalf of individuals/businesses/organisations may be made public (including online publication) alongside the full name of the individual/agent submitting the comments (where provided), together with the full name of the individual/business/organisation that the submission has been made on behalf of. Details within your comments referring to specific addresses may be published, where these are relevant to the planning matters being commented on. No other contact details will be published. 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.