Agenda item

Report of the Corporate Director of Environment and Place

This report updates Council on the Local Transport and Connectivity Plan (LTCP). It summarises the results of the LTCP consultation and outlines the key changes to the final LTCP. It also includes information about changes to the supporting strategies for Freight and Logistics, Innovation Framework and Active Travel. It is proposed that the content of the documents found in appendixes 2-5 are all adopted by the council

Council is RECOMMENDED to

a)         Adopt the content of the Local Transport and Connectivity Plan document, and the supporting strategies, as council policy.

b)        Acknowledge the Cabinet resolution on 21 June 2022 to delegate the decision on the final Local Transport and Connectivity Plan document, including graphical format, to the Corporate Director for Environment and Place in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Travel and Development Strategy.

Council had before it a report updating members on the Local Transport and Connectivity Plan (LTCP). Local Transport Plans were statutory documents, required under the Transport Act 2008.   The new Oxfordshire document had been titled the Local Transport and Connectivity Plan (LTCP), to better reflect the strategy both for digital infrastructure and for better connectivity across the whole county.

The report summarised the results of the LTCP consultation and outlined the key changes to the final LTCP. It also included information about changes to the supporting strategies for Freight and Logistics, Innovation Framework and Active Travel. It was proposed that the content of the documents found in annexes 2-5 were all adopted by the council

Councillor Duncan Enright moved and Councillor Andrew Gant seconded that the recommendations set out in the report be adopted.

Following debate it was:-

RESOLVED (nem con) to:-

a)       Adopt the content of the Local Transport and Connectivity Plan document, and the supporting strategies, as council policy.

b)       Acknowledge the Cabinet resolution on 21 June 2022 to delegate the decision on the final Local Transport and Connectivity Plan document, including graphical format, to the Corporate Director for Environment and Place in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Travel and Development Strategy.