Oxford: Walton Street - safe seating areas

We're asking for your views on the proposals to suspend waiting, parking and loading on Walton Street in order to facilitate the continued safe use in part of the road, of tables and chairs by the adjacent retail hospitality businesses. The proposals will make permanent the provisions of the current Temporary Traffic Regulation Order which was made under the Traffic Orders Procedure (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020.

Specifically, the changes are planned for the northeast side of the road at the following locations:

• from a point 90 metres southeast of the south-eastern kerb line of St Bernard’s Road south-eastwards for a distance of 16 metres, in place of the existing 1-hour parking places (permit holders exempt), and
• from a point 30 metres southeast of the south-eastern kerb line of Observatory Street, south-eastwards for a distance of 7 metres, in place of the existing 1-hour parking places.

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 Friday 18 November 2022. Oxfordshire County Council will collate all correspondence and comments received in response to this consultation, and they may be disseminated widely for these purposes and made available to the public.

Whilst we will endeavour 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 2022/early in 2023. 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.