Didcot Area Travel Plan

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The Didcot Area Travel Plan is being developed as part of the countywide Local Transport and Connectivity Plan (LTCP).

The LTCP sets a clear vision to deliver a net-zero transport system that enables Oxfordshire to thrive, protects the environment and makes the county a better place to live for all residents.

It covers all aspects of travel from private car journeys, cycling, freight, bus, and rail journeys and includes ambitious targets such as:

  • reducing 1 in 4 car trips by 2030
  • delivering a net-zero transport network by 2040 and
  • having zero, or as close as possible, road fatalities or life-changing injuries by 2050.

To achieve this, we are now developing area travel plans across Oxfordshire.

Didcot Area Travel Plan

The Didcot Area travel plan will form part of an overarching travel plan for the South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district.

The district plan will be made up of area plans covering transport and travel options for Abingdon, Didcot, Henley-on-Thames, Thame, Faringdon, Wallingford, Wantage and Grove.

The travel plans will form the key document to bid for relevant funding to deliver transport projects between now and 2050 that support the vision and targets of the LTCP.

Oxfordshire County Council will be holding a series of stakeholder workshops in the months ahead to gather feedback from each area as we draft these travel plans.

Stakeholder workshops

We held 10 stakeholder engagement workshops between November 2022 and January 2023 to gain early insight from a range of users about transport challenges and options for Didcot and surrounding areas.

Over 100 stakeholders were invited to online sessions including user groups, county and district councillors, parish council members, local businesses and local public transport operators. 

Stakeholders were asked to provide feedback on active travel, the bus network, rail network, transport interchanges and how we can manage demand in terms of how and where people are travelling.

Key feedback included:

  • Access to public transport in rural locations, particularly frequency of services (Long Wittenham and North Moreton)
  • Availability of adequate cycling facilities at rail stations and routes including Milton Heights and between Abingdon, Didcot and Harwell campus.
  • The need for more safe and continuous cycle routes (particularly to encourage more young people to cycle). 
  • A lack of maintenance on cycling routes and walking routes.
  • Better wayfinding
  • Improvements to cycling routes including Cow Lane, Hagbourne Hill, A417, Coffin Way and on roads accessing the science parks.
  • Improvements on real time travel information at bus stops.
  • Potential locations for transport interchange hubs were identified along with ideas on what the transport hubs could provide (cycle parking, shelter, rail station interchanges with shower facilities, charging for e-scooters and e-bikes).
  • Demand management measures such as road closures, speed limit reductions and delivery restrictions were discussed and received both positive and negative feedback.

 In March, we also hosted a young people’s feedback event which included a group of young people from Didcot to feed in their views of transport in the area.

Key feedback from the Didcot young people session included:

  • Lack of cycle paths hampering greater take up of cycling.
  • Young people rely on buses to get to and from school.
  • Young people also want better ticket options (annual or weekly tickets) and improvements on integration on ticketing across active transport options (bike hire, scooter hire, trains and buses).

 The feedback from these sessions is being used to help shape the Didcot Area Travel Plan.

We’ll update this page in due course with information about the next stage of the plan.

Your data

Under the Data Protection Act 2018, we (Oxfordshire County Council) have a legal duty to protect any personal information we collect from you. Oxfordshire County Council is committed to open government and this may include quoting extracts from your consultation response in our report.

View Oxfordshire County Council’s privacy notice online at www.oxfordshire.gov.uk - search for ‘privacy notice’.


The Didcot Area Travel Plan is being developed as part of the countywide Local Transport and Connectivity Plan (LTCP).

The LTCP sets a clear vision to deliver a net-zero transport system that enables Oxfordshire to thrive, protects the environment and makes the county a better place to live for all residents.

It covers all aspects of travel from private car journeys, cycling, freight, bus, and rail journeys and includes ambitious targets such as:

  • reducing 1 in 4 car trips by 2030
  • delivering a net-zero transport network by 2040 and
  • having zero, or as close as possible, road fatalities or life-changing injuries by 2050.

To achieve this, we are now developing area travel plans across Oxfordshire.

Didcot Area Travel Plan

The Didcot Area travel plan will form part of an overarching travel plan for the South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district.

The district plan will be made up of area plans covering transport and travel options for Abingdon, Didcot, Henley-on-Thames, Thame, Faringdon, Wallingford, Wantage and Grove.

The travel plans will form the key document to bid for relevant funding to deliver transport projects between now and 2050 that support the vision and targets of the LTCP.

Oxfordshire County Council will be holding a series of stakeholder workshops in the months ahead to gather feedback from each area as we draft these travel plans.

Stakeholder workshops

We held 10 stakeholder engagement workshops between November 2022 and January 2023 to gain early insight from a range of users about transport challenges and options for Didcot and surrounding areas.

Over 100 stakeholders were invited to online sessions including user groups, county and district councillors, parish council members, local businesses and local public transport operators. 

Stakeholders were asked to provide feedback on active travel, the bus network, rail network, transport interchanges and how we can manage demand in terms of how and where people are travelling.

Key feedback included:

  • Access to public transport in rural locations, particularly frequency of services (Long Wittenham and North Moreton)
  • Availability of adequate cycling facilities at rail stations and routes including Milton Heights and between Abingdon, Didcot and Harwell campus.
  • The need for more safe and continuous cycle routes (particularly to encourage more young people to cycle). 
  • A lack of maintenance on cycling routes and walking routes.
  • Better wayfinding
  • Improvements to cycling routes including Cow Lane, Hagbourne Hill, A417, Coffin Way and on roads accessing the science parks.
  • Improvements on real time travel information at bus stops.
  • Potential locations for transport interchange hubs were identified along with ideas on what the transport hubs could provide (cycle parking, shelter, rail station interchanges with shower facilities, charging for e-scooters and e-bikes).
  • Demand management measures such as road closures, speed limit reductions and delivery restrictions were discussed and received both positive and negative feedback.

 In March, we also hosted a young people’s feedback event which included a group of young people from Didcot to feed in their views of transport in the area.

Key feedback from the Didcot young people session included:

  • Lack of cycle paths hampering greater take up of cycling.
  • Young people rely on buses to get to and from school.
  • Young people also want better ticket options (annual or weekly tickets) and improvements on integration on ticketing across active transport options (bike hire, scooter hire, trains and buses).

 The feedback from these sessions is being used to help shape the Didcot Area Travel Plan.

We’ll update this page in due course with information about the next stage of the plan.

Your data

Under the Data Protection Act 2018, we (Oxfordshire County Council) have a legal duty to protect any personal information we collect from you. Oxfordshire County Council is committed to open government and this may include quoting extracts from your consultation response in our report.

View Oxfordshire County Council’s privacy notice online at www.oxfordshire.gov.uk - search for ‘privacy notice’.