Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Transport Management

Forward Plan Ref: 2025/169

Contact: Anthony Kirkwood, Vision Zero Team Leader (Anthony.Kirkwood@oxfordshire.gov.uk)

Report by Director of Environment and Highways (CMDTM).

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to:

a)    Approve the installation of two new Side Road Entry Treatments (raised informal crossings) at the A4158 Rose Hill junctions with the service road for property Nos. 2-38, as advertised.

The Chair introduced the item to the meeting, invited speakers to make their addresses and responded to their points in turn.

The Chair identified the problem as cars rat-running through the slip road, as detailed by respondents to the consultation and others. The Chair stated that he felt the proposals before him did not address that problem.

Officers stated data has been collected which showed an average of 360 cars a day using the slip road before previous proposals had been put in place. It had now dropped to around 160 cars a day.

The Chair noted that the dentist had two entrances – one from the slip road and one from Rose Hill.

The Chair referred to consultation responses from several local County Councillors.

The Chair asked for officers to revisit these proposals by bringing back different proposals that fully evaluated the options, including closure of the slip road at the northern end (physically or via camera enforcement).

The Chair thanked officers for their work, speakers for their contributions and rejected the recommendations in the report.

RESOLVED to:

Reject the following recommendation.

a)    Approve the installation of two new Side Road Entry Treatments (raised informal crossings) at the A4158 Rose Hill junctions with the service road for property Nos. 2-38, as advertised.