Share your views on active travel proposals for Woodstock
Residents and people who travel around Woodstock are being asked to help shape a draft plan to make walking, wheeling and cycling easier, safer and more enjoyable around the town.
Oxfordshire County Council is asking for views about what highway improvements are needed to provide Woodstock and neighbouring parishes with a high-quality active travel network. Improvements could include better cycleways or added pedestrian crossings to make it easier to access and move around the town.
People can view the draft plan and area maps, and have their say on Let’s talk Oxfordshire, the county council’s digital engagement and consultation platform until 5 March 2025.
Councillor Andrew Gant, Oxfordshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Transport Management, said: “We want to make it easier for people to choose walking, wheeling or cycling for more local journeys. Active travel as part of our daily lives can be a way to save money, keep healthy, feel well and improve air quality. It’s a win on so many levels.
“Valuable local feedback will help us identify the best solutions for Woodstock – with safe, convenient, and well-connected walking, wheeling and cycling networks for people of all abilities, ages and backgrounds, connecting them to where they want to go.”
The draft Woodstock and surrounding areas local cycling, walking and infrastructure plan (LCWIP) has been developed together with local partners. It proposes a joined-up network for active travel that links the places people need to visit regularly – including schools, shops, places of work and medical centres.
It aims to help make walking, wheeling and cycling an easy everyday choice for short journeys around the town or combined with using public transport for longer journeys. This will support a thriving, healthy, inclusive and low carbon communities where improvements preserve and enhance the local environment and make Woodstock and the area around it a great place to live, work and visit.
Once finalised – with feedback from local people helping shape the plan, the LCWIP will be an essential tool, helping to get funding to deliver active travel improvements in the town and surrounding area.
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For more information about this release contact the Oxfordshire County Council communications team on 01865 323870 or email press.office@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Notes to editors
- Measures in the central Oxfordshire travel plan and Oxfordshire’s local transport and connectivity plan are designed to make Oxfordshire a better place for everyone.
- Local cycling and walking infrastructure plans (LCWIP) were introduced by the Department for Transport, alongside the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, for local authorities to “develop strategic plans to improve conditions for cycling and walking, in order to support increases in travel on foot and bicycle”.
- You can find out more about Oxfordshire County Council's approach to LCWIPs online.
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