Agenda item

Cabinet Member: Infrastructure and Development Strategy

Forward Plan Ref: 2025/104

Contact: Pete Brunskill, Rail Development Lead

Pete.brunskill@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Director of Economy and Place (CA12)

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)           Approve for publication and adopt the OxRAIL 2040: Plan for Rail (the Plan) in Annex 1 to this report (as a daughter document to the Local Transport and Connectivity Plan)

(b)           Delegate to the Director of Economy and Place, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Place, Environment and Climate Action, to make final amendments to the Plan as necessary following meetings of the Place Overview and Scrutiny Committee meeting and Cabinet.

Recommendations approved.

With regard to recommendation b, the Cabinet agreed to make the following changes to the plan proposed by Councillor Andy Graham, Leader of West Oxfordshire District Council :-

P37 - "we will continue to develop options for medium- to longer-term mass rapid transit (which may include rail) for this corridor to identify deliverable plans and financing mechanisms for its implementation potentially within this plan period (P3.05)"

P80 text be amended to align with the P37 text and reads: "We will continue to explore the case for a Carterton–Witney–Oxford Mass Rapid Transit system (P3.05), to identify the most suitable solution to enhance public transport access to the west of our County."