Active Travel Conference for Oxford and Oxfordshire
The controversial Oxford-Cambridge Expressway was cancelled in March but the Government retains its original ambition to increase economic output of the Oxford to Cambridge region by an amount that requires more than one million workers and an aspirational one million houses, with Oxfordshire’s share (300,000) more than doubling the entire housing stock of the county by 2050. Key documents released in February of this year outline a framework spatial plan for the Ox-Cam Arc and a regional transport strategy to improve both road and rail connections across the region. The regional transport strategy assumes a 40% increase in total housing stock across 6 counties and a net zero carbon transport system by 2040. Both the Oxfordshire Plan 2050 and the County Council’s Local Transport and Connectivity Plan assume as a given the Ox-Cam Arc ambitions, about which the general public has been neither informed nor consulted.
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