ONH supported Bloxham Parish Council in objecting to a 95 homes site, which was successfully refused: The decision notice finds that the site is not allocated in the emerging Neighbourhood Plan and that the scheme's scale runs contrary to the plan's housing strategy, which had reached an advanced stage. That conflict sits alongside harm to the village's landscape setting in the first reason for refusal.

Neighbourhood plans can deliver community infrastructure - but what else needs to be in place to create a successful project?

Community engagement in Horsford, neighbourhood plans in the new forest and design codes in Sussex, ONH has been out and about in November

ONH chat with Richard Carrow from Burghclere about his military background and community led planning.