A PLAN for where to build thousands of homes for Oxford workers in the nearby countryside will be published in the autumn.

Vale of White Horse District Council has revealed it is on track to publish part two of its Local Plan for development this October.

The council has agreed to take 2,200 homes on top of its own need to help Oxford meet its ‘needs’ calculated by a government-backed housing assessment.

It is hoped that many of the homes could go on Abingdon’s Dalton Barracks which is due to close in 2029.

However more may still have to be built around the villages just south of Oxford in the city’s green built, on top of those already planned such as the 950 in north Abingdon approved by the district council last week.

All four Oxfordshire districts around the city – the others being South Oxfordshire, West Oxfordshire and Cherwell – will have to allow thousands of extra homes to be built after the government-backed Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA), concluded the city ‘needed’ more homes than could be built within the ring road.

This assessment is partly based on migrant figures for each district but also on planned economic growth and the housing needed to sustain such growth.

The Vale’s Local Plan 2031: Part 2 has been published after extensive consultations with the public and local organisations, and the publication in October will give locals a second and final chance to comment on it.

For more details search for local plan on whitehorsedc.gov.uk