Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Place, Environment and Climate Action

Forward Plan Ref: 2026/001

Key Decision 

Contact: Paul Harris, Countryside Access Team Leader (Paul.Harris@oxfordshire.gov.uk)

Report by Director of Environment and Highways (CMDPECA5). 

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to:

a)    Agree to retain the current Rights of Way Improvement Plan (2015-2025), at Annex 4, extending it until March 2029 for the reasons as set out in Annex 1.

The Chair introduced the item to the meeting and invited officers to present the report.

Officers confirmed the reasons for the recommendation to extend the plan was due to the plan being under continual review, the consultation undertaken in spring 2025, adopted right of way policies and impending local government reorganisation and devolution.

Officers noted work that takes place with the Wildlife Trust and National Trust.

The Chair noted that the plan linked with the Local Transport and Connectivity Plan and agreed with officer recommendations that this was the wrong time to implement major changes to the Rights of Way plan, agreeing to extend the existing plan until 2029.

The Chair thanked officers for their work and agreed to the recommendations in the report.

RESOLVED to:

a)    Agree to retain the current Rights of Way Improvement Plan (2015-2025), at Annex 4, extending it until March 2029 for the reasons as set out in Annex 1.