Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Infrastructure and Development Strategy, Transport Management.

Forward Plan Ref: 2024/231

Contact: Joe Kay, Oxfordshire Transport Strategy Team Leader (Joseph.Kay@oxfordshire.gov.uk)

Report by Director of Environment and Highways (CA11).

1.               Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

a)    Note the progress made on delivering the Local Transport and Connectivity Plan to date.

b)    Approve the Local Transport and Connectivity Plan monitoring report for publication (Annex 1).

c)    Approve the proposed changes to the Local Transport and Connectivity Plan for publication (Annex 2).

Recommendations approved.

Cabinet had before it a report providing an overview of the Local Transport and Connectivity Plan (LTCP) monitoring report. It summarised the background to the report and key issues. It also provided an overview of proposed changes to the LTCP. It is proposed that the monitoring report (annex 1) and updated LTCP (changes summarised in annex 2) are agreed by cabinet for publication.

The LTCP adopted by the council in July 2022, outlines the long-term vision for transport and travel in the county and the policies required to deliver this. The LTCP also included a set of headline targets to track delivery of the vision. This included targets to replace or remove one out of every four current car trips in Oxfordshire by 2030, deliver a net-zero transport network by 2040 and have zero, or as close as possible, road fatalities or serious injuries by 2050.

Councillor Judy Roberts, Cabinet Member for Infrastructure and Development Strategy, presented the report.

During discussion, members referred to the importance of data and reporting to enable better understanding of how the activities of the Council related to delivering LTCP targets.

Councillor Roberts moved and Councillor Gant seconded the recommendations, and they were approved.

RESOLVED to:-

a)    Note the progress made on delivering the Local Transport and Connectivity Plan to date.

b)    Approve the Local Transport and Connectivity Plan monitoring report for publication (Annex 1).

c)     Approve the proposed changes to the Local Transport and Connectivity Plan for publication (Annex 2).