Oxford: A4165 Banbury Rd & A4158 Iffley Rd/Henley Ave - proposed side road entry treatments

We're asking for your views on the proposals to construct new side road entry treatments (generally 85mm high platforms, with 1:10 ramp gradients) at the following junctions along the Banbury Road and Iffley Road in Oxford, which will provide continuous footways across the junction providing improvements for both pedestrians and cyclists:

* junction design to take into account the existing bus route.

Improvements to some existing central traffic islands are also proposed which will help further aid safe crossing movements.

In Oxford, the overwhelming majority of injuries on the highway are to pedestrians and people cycling, frequently at junctions. Therefore, the proposals for Banbury Road and Iffley Road are focussed on improving safety for pedestrians and cyclists with the proposed interventions being identified in conjunction with the Department for Transport (DfT) and Oxfordshire County Council’s Vision Zero team.

Funding has largely been provided by the DfT’s Safer Roads Fund, and the DfT has identified the Banbury Road and Iffley Road for intervention to improve road safety, particularly for more vulnerable road users. This funding can only be used for this specific purpose, and on these specific roads

The junction improvements aim to reduce the risk of future accidents through a combination of whole route measures (improved delineation) and site-specific measures (side road entry treatments and improved pedestrian crossings), and are designed to improve the priority junctions along those roads where significant numbers of `active travel injuries` have been recorded, and have been developed in a ‘co-design’ setting with stakeholders.

Further information about how we plan to make these two busy roads in Oxford safer can be found here

Have your say.

Please read the detailed information provided on this consultation and take the time to complete the survey as your views and opinions matter. Your response should be completed and returned by 5pm on Friday 28 March 2025.

Whilst we will endeavor to answer simple queries during the course of the consultation, any more complex questions/issues will be appraised and dealt with as part of consultation process.

What happens next?

The County Council will review the responses and if necessary (i.e. if objections are received) prepare a report to be presented to the Cabinet Member for Highway Management at a meeting scheduled for later in 2025. This will be public meeting at which members of the public may apply to speak. The agenda and reports for meetings will be made available on the Oxfordshire County Council web site about a week before the meeting (please note that occasionally it is necessary to defer reports to a later meeting, and it is therefore advisable to check the agenda ahead of attending a meeting). The Forward Plan of decisions meetings can be viewed here.

Note of a technical error:

We have been made aware of a technical error that had occurred in the following question in this consultation:

Q5. Please select which of the following that best describes your opinion of the proposed 'Side Road Entry Treatments' off of the A4158 Iffley Road, Oxford, should have read ‘Cornwallis Road’ and not ‘Bevington Road’ as the final option.

We would like to apologise for this technical error that was identified and fixed quickly. Steps have been taken to reach out to the very small number of people directly impacted. We do not however have the contact details for everyone affected, therefore If you submitted a response to this survey on 27 February and would like to change your answer to that question please email: saferroadsfund@oxfordshire.gov.uk and we will ensure this is noted against your existing response so it can be considered in the final analysis of the total survey feedback.