A planning application for 77 homes on land off Oxford Road has been submitted for consideration. The applicant, Bloor Homes, is describing it as Phase 2 to their recently completed site. This was called 'Site F' within the current Thame Neighbourhood Plan (TNP).
The site is able to come forward now as the current TNP made space for a reserve site for 78 homes in this area in case housing could not be built on Lord Williams’s Lower School Site. Major archaeological remains have forced the movement of the reserve site from the west of the Oxford Road site to the east. The area this current planning application relates to is shown in red on the above plan.
The applicant will have to prove that the scheme is otherwise compliant with both the District’s Local Plan and the current TNP. With the area of land generally accepted as being suitable for housing, it is proposed that the site will also be allocated within the revised TNP, which will be released as a draft for consultation in the summer. It can then be counted as contributing to the housing the District Council have allocated towards Thame.
