Issue - meetings

Oxfordshire County Council no longer has support for the:

i. Cowley LTN scheme; and

ii. East Oxford LTN scheme.

Council now requests Cabinet to urgently consider setting in train the necessary executive steps to remove the Cowley LTNs as agreed by the Cabinet Member for Environment (including Transport) on 21st January 2021 and the East Oxford LTNs as agreed by Cabinet on Tuesday 17th October 2023.

The amendment by Councillor Duncan Enright, as set out in the Schedule of Business, was passed with 38 in favour, 19 against and no abstentions.  The motion as amended was carried unanimously (49 votes in favour, none against, no abstentions).

Councillor Liam Walker moved and Councillor Eddie Reeves seconded the following motion:

“Oxfordshire County Council no longer has support for the:

i. Cowley LTN scheme; and

ii. East Oxford LTN scheme.

Council now requests Cabinet to urgently consider setting in train the necessary executive steps to remove the Cowley LTNs as agreed by the Cabinet Member for Environment (including Transport) on 21st January 2021 and the East Oxford LTNs as agreed by Cabinet on Tuesday 17th October 2023.”

Councillor Duncan Enright moved and Councillor Charlie Hicks seconded the following amendment:

“Oxfordshire County Council no longer has support for notes the opposition to the:

i. Cowley LTN scheme; and

ii. East Oxford LTN scheme.

Council now requests Cabinet to urgently consider setting in train the necessary executive steps to remove the congestion around the Cowley LTNs as agreed by the Cabinet Member for Environment (including Transport) on 21st January 2021 and the East Oxford LTNs as agreed by Cabinet on Tuesday 17th October 2023.”

The proposers did not accept the amendment.

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Following debate Councillor Robin Bennett moved and Councillor Damian Haywood seconded that the question be put. The motion was carried on a show of hands.

Councillor Liam Walker and more than six other Members stood to request a recorded vote on the amendment.

Councillors voting for the amendment (38):

Baines, Bearder, Bennet, Brighouse, Cherry, Coles, Elphinstone, Enright, Fadlalla, Fawcett, Gant, Gawrysiak, Graham, Gregory, Hanna, Hannaby, Haywood, Hicks, Howson, Johnston, Leffman, Levy, Ley, Middleton, van Mierlo, Miller, O’Connor, Phillips, Povolotsky, Pressel, Roberts, Rooke, Rouane, Saul, Smith, Sudbury, Thomas, Webber.

Councillors voting against the amendment (19):

Banfield, Bartholomew, Bloomfield, Bulmer, Champken-Woods, Constance, Corkin, Fenton, Field-Johnson, Ford, Ilott, Leverton, Mallon, Reeves, Sibley, Simpson, Snowdon, Waine, Walker.

There were no abstentions.

Following further debate the motion, as amended, was carried unanimously (49 in favour, 0 against, 0 abstentions).

RESOLVED (unanimously):-

Oxfordshire County Council no longer has support for notes the opposition to the:

i. Cowley LTN scheme; and

ii. East Oxford LTN scheme.

Council now requests Cabinet to urgently consider setting in train the necessary executive steps to remove the congestion around the Cowley LTNs as agreed by the Cabinet Member for Environment (including Transport) on 21st January 2021 and the East Oxford LTNs as agreed by Cabinet on Tuesday 17th October 2023.