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Joint Local Plan 2045 (JLP2)

We have started to prepare a new Joint Local Plan for South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse. This will be our second joint local plan, it will cover the period up to 2045 and we will refer to it as JLP2.  

On 19 June 2026 we published our notice of intention to commence Joint Local Plan 2045 preparation and our timetable which sets out the plan-making milestones.

Key dates in the preparation of the Joint Local Plan 2045: 

June 2026: Publication of the Local Plan Timetable and Notice of intention to commence local plan preparation. 

September 2026: Scoping Consultation 

June to July 2027: Consultation on proposed plan content and evidence 

March to April 2028: Consultation on the proposed plan 

Examination: November 2028 to March 2029 

Adoption: April 2029 

Work on our first Joint Local Plan 2041 (JLP1) is continuing, please visit our Joint Local Plan 2041 ‘Latest News’ page for further details, as this webpage relates to the preparation of a new Joint Local Plan 2045 (JLP2). 

We will prepare JLP2 in line with the 2026 regulations published by Government in March 2026 and will follow a 30-month local plan preparation and examination timeline.  

For more information on why we are working on two joint local plans at the same time, please visit our ‘Why two Joint Local Plans?’ webpage.

Open Data

We are also required to publish a dataset for the plan itself; this can be viewed below. To comply with the government’s tabular data standard, we have provided this in CSV format. The information provided in the CSV file below is being provided to government under the Open Government Licence.