South Oxfordshire District Council · District council
Transport Statements and Assessments in South Oxfordshire
What transport evidence a South Oxfordshire planning application needs, the parking standards that apply, and the policies an assessment should address.
Which document do you need?
National policy asks for a Transport Statement or a Transport Assessment wherever a development will generate significant amounts of movement.
Transport Statement
A shorter document for smaller schemes where transport issues are limited: access, parking, trips and sustainable travel.
Transport Assessment
A full assessment for larger schemes: trip generation, network impact, junction capacity and mitigation.
Parking standards
South Oxfordshire District Council sets its parking standards in the document below. Use it for the car and cycle provision your scheme needs.
Source: Parking Standards for New Developments (Oxfordshire County Council, April 2026)Adopted April 2026Confirmed as the current standard on 6 November 2026
Policies your assessment should address
The transport policies of the development plan documents in the summary panel. A neighbourhood plan, or a plan for one part of South Oxfordshire, may also apply to your site.
South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2035
- INF1Infrastructure Provision
- TRANS1ASupporting Strategic Transport
- TRANS1BSupporting Strategic Transport Investment
- TRANS2Promoting Sustainable Transport and Accessibility
- TRANS4Transport Assessments, Transport Statements and Travel Plans
- TRANS6Rail
- ENV11Pollution - Impact from Existing and/or Previous Land Uses on New Development (Potential Receptors of Pollution)
- ENV12Pollution - Impact of Development on Human Health, the Natural Environment and/or Local Amenity (Potential Sources of Pollution)
- EP1Air Quality
This page summarises adopted policy and links to the source documents. It is not legal advice: always confirm a figure against the adopted document before relying on it.