Witney: High Street & Market Square - proposed prohibition of motor vehicles & parking restrictions

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This consultation has now concluded.

We're asking for your views on the proposal to introduce a permanent prohibition of motor vehicles covering High Street & Market Place in Witney following the successful implementation of the temporary traffic restriction. The proposals are being put forward to:

  1. help reduce the level of through traffic in Witney High Street and Market Square,
  2. aid pedestrian accessibility and increase safety,
  3. aid cycling accessibility and safety by reducing likelihood of conflict with other vehicles,
  4. improve bus access and bus journey time reliability, and
  5. increase amount of blue badge parking at key town centre location.

Exemptions will include buses, taxis, vehicles loading/unloading & those displaying a valid blue badge. Additionally, the existing 30-minute short-stay parking bays along the western side of Market Square will be converted to 3-hour ‘Disabled Persons Parking Places’.

Please read the information provided on this consultation, your views and opinions matter. Please take the time to complete the survey, your response should be completed and returned by Friday 03 December 2021.

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 2021/early in 2022. 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.

We're asking for your views on the proposal to introduce a permanent prohibition of motor vehicles covering High Street & Market Place in Witney following the successful implementation of the temporary traffic restriction. The proposals are being put forward to:

  1. help reduce the level of through traffic in Witney High Street and Market Square,
  2. aid pedestrian accessibility and increase safety,
  3. aid cycling accessibility and safety by reducing likelihood of conflict with other vehicles,
  4. improve bus access and bus journey time reliability, and
  5. increase amount of blue badge parking at key town centre location.

Exemptions will include buses, taxis, vehicles loading/unloading & those displaying a valid blue badge. Additionally, the existing 30-minute short-stay parking bays along the western side of Market Square will be converted to 3-hour ‘Disabled Persons Parking Places’.

Please read the information provided on this consultation, your views and opinions matter. Please take the time to complete the survey, your response should be completed and returned by Friday 03 December 2021.

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 2021/early in 2022. 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.

This consultation has now concluded.