Issue - meetings

**No public speaking permitted on this item as it is not a planning application for determination by Cherwell District Council**

Planning Committee is asked to consider and approve Cherwell District Council’s Written Response to the Stage 2 Oxfordshire Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (OxSFRI) Consultation

Recommendations 

The Planning Committee resolves:

1.1     To approve the approve the phase 2 consultation joint response to the applicant.

That the Cherwell District Council’s Written Response to the Stage 2 Oxfordshire Strategic Rail Freight Interchange consultation be noted.

The Committee considered a report of the Head of Development Management which recommended the Committee note the Council’s written response to the Stage 2 Oxfordshire Strategic Rail Freight Interchange, which was a joint response between Cherwell District Council and Oxfordshire County Council.

The Committee was advised that the consultation response

The Committee was advised that the scale of this application meant that it was defined as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP). Developments of this type were determined by the relevant Secretary of State (SoS) with the Planning Inspectorate (PINS) acting as the examining authority who made a recommendation to the SoS as to whether a Development Consent Order (DCO) should be granted.  Local Authorities (LAs) were consultees in this process and were not determining authorities.

Resolved

That the Cherwell District Council’s Written Response to the Stage 2 Oxfordshire Strategic Rail Freight Interchange consultation be noted.