Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Place, Environment and Climate Action

Forward Plan Ref: 2025/262

Key decision

Contact: Ashley Hayden, Team Leader (Area Travel Plans)

Ashley.hayden@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Director of Environment and Highways (CA10)

The Movement and Place (MAP) plans form part 2s of the Local Transport Connectivity Plan. This MAP Plan reflects the Bicester area in the North of the County (Cherwell) with further plans to come forward over the following months.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to: -

Approve the adoption and publication of the Bicester and Surrounding Villages Movement and Place Plan (Annex A), and its subsequent supporting documents at A1-A4 (Delivery Plan, proposals map, people postcards, summary of plan).

Recommendations approved.

Cabinet had before it a report recommending approval of the Bicester and Surrounding Villages Movement and Place (MAP) Plan. The plan was the second in a series under the MAP Plan programme. Its adoption would formally replace the 2016 “Area Strategies” from Local Transport Plan 4, with the MAP Plans taking their place as “Part 2s” of the Local Transport Connectivity Plan (LTCP), specifically supporting Policies 52 and 53.

Councillor Judy Roberts, Cabinet Member for Place, Environment and Climate Action, presented the report. Councillor Roberts explained that the plan provided a vision and guiding principles for the area, was intended as a living document to be updated annually, and aimed to balance the needs of growth, active travel, and public transport, while acknowledging the challenges posed by the scale of development.

A number of speakers raised concerns about the cumulative impact of multiple developments around Bicester, the need for a cumulative impact board, and the adequacy of the plan in addressing future growth and rural transport needs.

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

RESILVED to approve the adoption and publication of the Bicester and Surrounding Villages Movement and Place Plan (Annex A), and its subsequent supporting documents at A1-A4 (Delivery Plan, proposals map, people postcards, summary of plan).