Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2016/149

Contact: Llewelyn Morgan, Service Manager for Localities, Policy & Programmes Tel: 07881 268208

Report by Director for Planning & Place (CMDE9).

The report provides an overview of work undertaken to update Oxfordshire County Council’s design guidance on Walking and Cycling infrastructure provision and a summary of comments received on drafts of that guidance.

The Cabinet Member for the Environment is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)             approve the new Walking and Cycling Design Guidance as attached for implementation as council guidance and for publication on the County Council website;

(b)             authorise the Director for Planning & Place to carry out periodic reviews of the Design Guidance to ensure it continues to reflect local and national best practice.

Approved

Approved

The Cabinet Member for Environment considered (CMDE9) an update to the County Council’s design guidance for walking and cycling infrastructure provision.

Councillor Jean Fooks welcomed the guidance and hoped that the district council would take into account its contents when considering planning applications. She highlighted a number of issues including segregated tracks, two way cycle tracks on both sides of a road such as the A40 between oxford and Eynsham and greater emphasis on speed limits.

Mr Llewellyn Morgan advised that Oxfordshire was the first authority to have done this work in response to government guidance. The revised guidance would help raise the quality of cycling and walking infrastructure in the county and set out more clearly what was expected of developers in terms of best practice. It was very much a living document and officers for their part would continue to review its content.

Commending the work done to date and having regard to the arguments and options set out in the report and the representations made to him at the meeting the Cabinet Member for Environment confirmed his decision as follows:

(a)   to approve the new Walking and Cycling Design Guidance as attached for implementation as council guidance and for publication on the County Council website;

(b)   to authorise the Director for Planning & Place to carry out periodic reviews of the Design Guidance to ensure it continues to reflect local and national best practice.

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Cabinet Member for Environment

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