Help us set 'The Way Ahead' for South Oxfordshire
Overview
Our Council Priorities for 2024-2028
What is South Oxfordshire’s Plan?
We are preparing a new plan for the next four years.
It’s very important to us that it reflects the priorities and aspirations of local residents, businesses and community groups. We really want to discuss these plans with the communities we serve to make sure we understand what you value and what areas you want us to focus on.
Background
Our current four-year plan began in 2020 and runs until October this year so we're now setting our priorities for the next four years.
Click here to find out more about the previous plan
Four years ago, we asked you to let us know what you thought about our ideas for what became our current Corporate Plan. Thanks to your feedback, we've prioritised tackling the climate and ecological emergencies with ambitious carbon reduction targets, extensive decarbonisation work at our leisure centres and biodiversity projects around the district. We're also shortly about to announce some exciting new projects to tackle affordable housing, another topic you told us you were keen on. You can read more in our performance reports.
Draft themes for our new plan
Our vision is for a fairer, more inclusive South Oxfordshire where all residents can thrive both now and in the future.
Our suggested strategic themes and some examples of how we could achieve them over the next four years are set out here for discussion. Do they reflect your concerns and priorities, or have we missed anything out?
Our ‘Way Ahead’ outlines five key themes steering our existing and aspirational plans within South Oxfordshire, covering:
Theme 1: Action on climate change and nature recovery.
Theme 2: Inclusion, accessibility and accountability.
Theme 3: Thriving and healthy communities.
Theme 4: Homes and infrastructure that meet local need.
Theme 5: Financial stability and innovative transformation.
There is a bit more detail later in the survey about how we might achieve our objectives under these themes.
We would like to invite your comments from Tuesday 16 April until 11:59pm on Tuesday 14 May 2024.
If you have any questions about this survey or require it in an alternative format (for example large print, Braille, audio, email, Easy Read and alternative languages) please email jointheconversation@southandvale.gov.uk or call 01235 422425.
Drop-in Event
We are holding a drop-in event at Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Rd, Didcot OX11 7JN on Thursday 18 April anytime between 15:30-17:30.
This drop-in event will give you the opportunity to talk to council officers about our proposed future plan for the district.
If you can't attend our drop-in event, you can take part in our South virtual exhibition here.
What happens next?
At the end of the four-week consultation period, we will use the feedback received to write a draft ‘The Way Ahead’: Our Council priorities for 2024-2028, which we will share in the autumn. The draft strategic plan will be subject to usual democratic and scrutiny process before adoption of the final plan by Full Council in October 2024. We will publish the final plan, alongside a consultation summary report on our website.
Personal details
If you are responding as an individual/member of the public, we will not ask for your name or any contact details. You also do not have to answer any questions that you do not want to. Any personal information you provide to the council within your comments that could identify you will not be published in the consultation summary report.
If you are responding on behalf of a business/organisation or town/parish council, we ask you to provide its name - the summary report will include this information. Further information on data protection is available in our privacy statement.
Events
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Drop-in Event
From 18 Apr 2024 at 15:30 to 18 Apr 2024 at 17:30Drop-in to Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Rd, Didcot OX11 7JN on Thursday 18 April between 15:30-17:30.
This drop-in event will give you the opportunity to talk to council officers about our proposed future plan for the district.
Areas
- All Areas
Audiences
- General Public
- Businesses/Organisations
- Town/Parish Councils
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