Experimental School Streets (phase 2) - proposed ANPR camera enforcement

We're asking for your views on the proposal to install 'Automatic Number Plate Recognition' (ANPR) cameras in order to enforce the existing five experimental School Streets within Didcot & Oxford, which will operate only during their current School Street trial operating times.

1. Didcot: (8:20am to 9:20am & 2:30pm to 3:30pm):

1. Manor Primary School (SS09): Lydalls Close (western section) – at its junction with the B4493 Foxhall Road.

2. Oxford: (8:00am to 9:00am & 2:30pm to 3:30pm):

1. St Mary & St John Church of England Primary School (SS05): Bedford Street – at its junction with Argyle Street,
2. Tyndale Community School (SS07): Barracks Lane – at its junction with Hollow Way,
3. New Hinksey Church of England Primary School (SS08): Lake Street – at its junction with the A4144 Abingdon Road, and Vicarage Road,
4. Sandhills Community Primary School (SS06): Terrett Avenue – at its junction with Merewood Avenue.

The ANPR cameras will be positioned at access points to the School Street trials (see consultation plans for approximate locations), encouraging active travel to the school (i.e. walking, cycling and scooting), discouraging motor vehicles except residents, blue badge holders and other specified exempt vehicles from entering the school street during the busy school start and finish times. Vehicles that are not exempt and go through the camera points will receive a Penalty Charge Notice.

The proposal is being put forward in order to help better manage the safe & effective use of the School Street scheme, encouraging active travel, improving air quality, and ensuring access is maintained for those exempted vehicles, and effective enforcement of the signed School Street trial restriction is able to take place.

Details on the experimental School Streets scheme consultation can be found here, and further information on the School Streets active travel measure is available on the county council’s website 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 16 August 2024.

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 2024. 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.