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In May 2025, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) confirmed the scheme’s Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO). This means we can now progress with purchasing the rights and interests in land that we need to build the scheme. We won't need to ask anyone to leave their homes - most of the land is farmland and floodplain meadow, and we have already consulted with landowners and affected parties and will continue to do so. The CPO brings certainty to our plans and the scheme closer to reality, to ensure reduced flood risk in Oxford.

For more information and all the documents relating to our CPO, please see the 'Compulsory Purchase Order' link on this page.