The County Council will decide  next Tuesday whether to release its draft Local Transport Plan 4 for public consultation. For those who would like to see the papers please click on this link and look for item 9

There has been a lot of interest in improving transport in Headington, and it came up as a significant issue in the responses to the neighbourhood plan issues and options consultation. Here is a brief guide to work so far.

The above papers are to get formal approval to consult on the Local Transport Plan 4. This is likely to start in February.

As part of LTP4 there is the emerging Oxford Transport Strategy (OTS). The focus of OTS is three areas: City Centre, North Oxford and Eastern Arc.

Headington is a part of the Eastern Arc Strategy and the Headington Transport Strategy baseline and consultation undertaken last year has fed into the strategy development. There is no longer a ‘Headington Transport Strategy’ per se.

OTS will be of interest to local residents as it sets out the county’s proposed strategy for the next 20 years and is more detailed in terms of bus routes, new P&R sites, cycle route proposals etc.

Access to Headington is a project looking at schemes that can be delivered to reduce congestion, and improve public transport and cycle access in particular.