Decision details

Key Decision required to approve OCC expenditure of £1.26m DfT grant for highway safety improvements in vicinity of RAF Barford St John

The report detailed funding provided from the Department of Transport of £1.26m to the County Council to improve highway safety at RAF Barford St John, as part of the United States Visiting Forces Road Safety Review, following a road traffic collision in 2019 whereby a United States citizen was driving on the wrong side of the road.

The Chair noted the technical nature of the decision due to the level of funding.

The Chair explained that the government had made funding available to look at safety around bases used by United States visiting military personnel and that the funding in the report was part of Oxfordshire’s allocation of those funds.

The Chair thanked officers for their work and approved the recommendations.

RESOLVED to:

a) Accept on behalf of the County Council the DfT provided grant of £1.26m

b) Approve the full scope of proposed works as provided in this report.

c) Permit Officers to make reasonable adjustments, inclusions, omissions etc to the package of works as may be considered appropriate/necessary during the scheme’s development / delivery.