Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Transport Management

Forward Plan Ref: 2026/066

Key decision

Contact: Daniel McCrory, Technical Lead – Place Shaping

Daniel.mccrory@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Director of Environment and Highways (CA10)

This is a proposal to develop a Quiet Lanes policy for the county, along with an associated framework for their implementation.
The policy, its benefits and the framework should be first tested through the implementation of a programme pilot (through 2026/27) before being fully adopted and rolled out on wider scale if appropriate.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to

a)    Approve the county council’s Quiet Lanes Policy statement as attached at Annex 1

b)    Approve the Assessment criteria for consideration of Quiet Lanes at Annex 2 and the Implementation Toolkit at Annex 3

c)    Endorse the proposed approach to implementing, and testing, the Quiet Lanes Policy across Oxfordshire through a programme of pilot schemes (to be identified with local county councillors and parish/town councils)

d)    Delegate authority to Director of Environment & Highways, in consultation with Cabinet Member for Transport Management, to bring into operation Traffic Regulation Orders (both permanent and experimental) for the pilot schemes