Council passed zoning, in part, for a 513-home subdivision with a school block at 382 Burnhamthorpe Road West

What Council decided

On December 9, 2024, Oakville's Planning and Development Council passed Zoning By-law 2024-166 for 382 Burnhamthorpe Road West, a 24-hectare property at the southeast corner of Neyagawa Boulevard and Burnhamthorpe Road West, the stretch now named William Halton Parkway, in Ward 7. The applicant is Sherborne Lodge Developments Limited.

The approval was partial. Council approved the rezoning and draft plan of subdivision application in part, passed the by-law with two of its special provisions, 8.135 and 8.136, and the holding provisions tied to them deferred to a later date, and authorized the Director of Planning Services to grant draft plan approval to the revised subdivision plan dated October 23, 2024, subject to conditions. The motion says the urban design requirements for the deferred lands are to come back with the deferred zoning. The minutes do not say which blocks those provisions cover.

What the plan contains

The Town's notice for the meeting describes 513 homes: 70 detached houses, 147 townhouses in street, double-frontage and back-to-back forms, and 296 apartments. The plan also sets aside a school block, a village square park block, part of a stormwater management pond and a natural heritage block that protects the woodlot the Town calls Core 5.

According to the notice of passing, the by-law takes the land out of the Future Development zone and applies site-specific Neyagawa Urban Core, General Urban, Suburban, Park, Institutional, Stormwater Management Facility and Natural Heritage System zones. Access is from William Halton Parkway, Neyagawa Boulevard and, once they are built, the subdivisions to the east.

Three years in the making

The applications date from December 2021, and the Town's project page shows a statutory public meeting on the March 7, 2022 Planning and Development Council agenda. That page still describes an earlier version of the plan, with 505 homes including 84 detached lots and 293 apartments; the 513-home mix is the one in the November 2024 notice and in the Town's planning record.

The decision came in the middle of a wider review. Two weeks earlier, on November 25, 2024, Council had held the statutory public meeting on the Town's own Neyagawa Urban Core amendments, which cover this corner. The same night it dealt with this file, Council made a similar partial decision on the neighbouring subdivision at 210 and 374 Burnhamthorpe Road West. It adopted the Neyagawa Urban Core amendments on March 3, 2025. Sherborne Lodge was among the four landowners that appealed them, and the Ontario Land Tribunal approved the amendments in principle, with changes, on April 24, 2026.

Where it stands now

The Town gave notice of the by-law on December 24, 2024, with an appeal period that ran into mid-January 2025. A search of the Ontario Land Tribunal's case status service on November 9, 2026 found no case for the address or the file numbers.

On the same day, the Town's planning record listed the subdivision at the Council approval stage with 513 approved units, and still listed the zoning file at the public meeting stage, with no decision date. No later Council decision on the deferred provisions appears in the Planning and Development Council minutes posted through September 2026. The notices do not say which school board the school block is reserved for.