Issue - meetings

To consider report 86/10 of the head of planning. 

The Executive considered report 86/10 of the head of planning.  This summarised Oxfordshire County Council’s proposals in its Local Transport Plan 3, and suggested a consultation response from the Executive.  The county council required consultation responses by 9 January 2011. 

The plan covered the period to 2030 and set out priorities for transport schemes.  The Executive noted the county council’s proposals for the Vale and commented that the recommendations set out in the report fairly reflected the Executive’s views, subject to clarifying the descriptions of the roads around Wantage and Grove.  The Executive also considered that an additional recommendation to the County Council should be included to require the Local Transport Plan to include the western extension of Mably Way as a long-term aspiration. 

The Executive asked that for clarification, the response to the County Council should included or refer to a map to show the roads referenced in the council’s consultation response, and that a copy of the map should be circulated to Executive members. 

RESOLVED

To inform Oxfordshire County Council that this council:

(a)               welcomes publication of Local Transport Plan 3;

(b)               notes the general objectives and policies;

(c)               requires that the Abingdon Area strategy includes under ‘Highway and Traffic Management’ a strategy sub-section committing the county council to work with the district and town councils to investigate how the case for the completion of the A34 Lodge Hill junction can be advanced;

(d)               requires the following bullet point to be added to paragraph 14.34 of the Abingdon Area strategy: “Investigate Marcham Road/Colwell Drive/Drayton Road/Ock Street junction improvements”;

(e)               supports the Science Vale UK strategy of establishing a transport network that supports economic development and growth and requires that the strategy confirms that the necessary transport infrastructure will be implemented as the county council’s top priority;

(f)                 requires that the Science Vale UK strategy includes under ‘Area Wide Strategy’ additional strategy sub-sections:

-          commits the county council to channel, as a top priority, available funding to the provision of the Harwell Strategic and Field Link Roads and the Wantage Eastern Link Road (Mably Way extension), which will directly benefit the immediate Science Vale UK area and Oxfordshire economies, so that while support for improved rail links can be maintained this support will not result in the diversion of funds away from the implementation of these strategic highway schemes,

-          commits the county council to complement the provision of these strategic highway schemes with the highway improvements to the A338 north of Wantage and the A417 east of Wantage;

(g)      requires the Local Transport Strategy for Wantage and Grove to include under the ‘Highway Infrastructure and Traffic Management’ strategy an additional strategy sub-section that the Wantage Western Link Road (west of Mably Way) should be included in the transport plan as a long term aspiration;

(h)               recognises the potential long-term benefits from investment in strategic rail links but wishes the county council to ensure the top priorities are given to investment in Oxfordshire strategic  ...  view the full minutes text for item 63