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Opinions Please!

The WNF Steering Committee does its best to represent the views of residents on proposed changes to our neighbourhood. There are currently these three public consultations in progress on plans with potential for such changes. If you are resident in the WNF area (for map see below), please contact us with your opinions: email us at wolvercotenf@gmail.com.

  • Plans for a major new innovation district, called EXOq, on land west of Frieze Way. Details are on the Cherwell District Council planning website: www.planningregister.cherwell.gov.uk/. Enter the planning application number 26/00720/OUT. The deadline for responding is 23 July.
  • The former North Oxford Golf Club course. The developer (OUD) is asking for opinions on their initial plans for up to 800 homes on this site. Details are at: www.landwestofoxfordroad.co.uk
  • Oxfordshire County Council is considering modifying the Cutteslowe Controlled Parking Zone, and is inviting opinions from residents until 24 July. Details are at: www.letstalk.oxfordshire.gov/oxford_cutteslowe_informal2026 .

Come and have your say on these and more, at our next public meeting:
2026 Winter Open Meeting and AGM on Tuesday 24 November at 7.30pm, at Wolvercote Village Hall.

About the Wolvercote Neighbourhood Forum

The work of the Wolvercote Neighbourhood Forum is done by the volunteers making up its Steering Committee. There is much going on at present in the WNF area.

We need more help.

What we do

We have created the Wolvercote Neighbourhood Plan, approved by residents in the 2021 referendum, and accepted by the City Council. We now monitor all developments and planning applications affecting the area. We respond and challenge when they threaten the vision for our area expressed in the Plan and favoured by residents.

We access money from the ‘Community Infrastructure Levy’ that developers pay the City Council. We use this to provide financial support to local groups with projects improving community infrastructure. The amount of money available is growing, so there is great potential for new projects. The photo below shows an example of a recent project. There are many more!

Lower Wolvercote Playground

To do all this effectively, we try as hard as we can to keep in touch with our members (i.e. all residents) through publicity, social media, emails, periodic public meetings etc.

Come and join us

If you are a resident of the WNF area, and are interested in joining us in these tasks, please email us at wolvercotenf@gmail.com .

We especially need more help and expertise in local authority planning issues and communications (particularly social media). We also need volunteers to help with our CIL projects for which we require good social skills and an eye for detail.

[Page Updated 30/06/2026]