Highways

PLANNING MATTERS extra

The County Council have engaged Oxford Direct Services (ODS) of the City Council to install a cycle path leading from Cavell Road to Meadow Lane. This is apparently to stop people using their feet or bikes to dig out further the diagonal path which crosses the football pitches. A consultation will apparently take place imminently.

The present proposed design is to open a second exit on Meadow Lane and would entail the felling of a considerable number of trees in the Meadow Lane copse.  ODS have marked these with red and white tape

The Committee of the Friends of Iffley Village oppose this proposal and see the destruction of the trees as wholly unnecessary. A cycle path could be installed easily to emerge on to Meadow Lane at the existing exit in the North-West corner of the field: for clarity, this would be parallel to Donnington Bridge Road and exit as now by the little bridge over the Boundary Brook. A second cycle path exit would not then be necessary and the trees could be saved.

Allegedly the Village will be informed very soon by Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford City Council how to make their views known on this matter.

14 March 2022

FOIV Committee

planning@friendsofiffley.org

Subject: Decisions Meeting (27/01/2022b) – Cabinet Member for Highway Management

From: Christian Mauz, Technical Officer (Traffic & Road Safety), Oxfordshire County Council|

18^th January 2022

• Oxford: Various Locations – Proposed “Quickways” Active Travel Measures,
• Oxford: Various Locations – Proposed Exclusions and Amendments to Eligibility for Parking Permits,
• Oxford: St Michael’s Street – Proposed Prohibition of Vehicles,
• Bodicote/Banbury: Blackwell Drive and White Post Road- Proposed Waiting Restrictions,
• Faringdon: Town Centre – Proposed 20mph Zone,
• Didcot & Long Wittenham: B4016 Ladygrove & Sires Hill – Proposed 40mph Speed Limit,
• Watlington: Pyrton Lane – Proposed 20mph Speed Limit Zone & Traffic Calming Measures,
• Charlbury: Hixet Wood – Proposed No Waiting at Any Time Restrictions,
• Minster Lovell: B4047 Burford Road – Proposed Extension of 40mph Speed Limit 

Following objections received during the consultation process – the proposals you commented on (see list above) will be presented at The Cabinet Member for Highway Management decisions meeting on Thursday 27thJanuary 2022 (at 10am). Papers for the meeting will be published on the Council’s website by the close of play on Wednesday 19thJanuary 2022, and will be available here: https://mycouncil.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=1167&MId=6680 Alternatively (if the link doesn’t work) go to: https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/public-site/meetings-and-decisions and follow the link for “Meetings calendar”. 

IMPORTANT NOTES: (These reflect the situation as at 10am on Tuesday 18th January) 

These proceedings are open to the public -Please note that Council meetings are currently taking place in-person (not virtually) with social distancing at the venue.  Meetings will continue to be live-streamed and those who wish to view them are strongly encouraged to do so online to minimise the risk of Covid 19 infection. 

If you wish to view proceedings, please click on the Live Stream Link (available on the relevant meeting page).  However, that will not allow you to participate in the meeting. Places at the meetings are very limited due to the requirements of social distancing.  If you wish to attend this meeting in person OR address the meeting, you must contact the Committee Officer by 9am four working days before the meeting i.e. Friday 21st January and they will advise if you can be accommodated at this meeting and of the detailed Covid-19 safety requirements for all attendees. 

• Requests to speak should be sent to Cameron.Maclean@Oxfordshire.gov.uk together with a written statement of your presentation to ensure that if the technology fails then your views can still be taken into account. A written copy of your statement can be provided no later than two working days before the meeting (i.e. 9am Tuesday 25th January).
• Where a meeting is held remotely and the addressee is unable to participate remotely their written submission will be accepted.
• Written submissions should be no longer than 1 A4 sheet. 

Whilst I appreciate that not every response may have been responded to directly, I can assure you that all comments received during the course of the consultation will have been reviewed and appraised by County Council Officers and will also be included in the report that will be presented at the meeting. Similarly, your full response will be made available to the Cabinet member, Council Officers and County Councillors in the time prior to the meeting. Any responses that were unable to be included within the report will have been appraised by Officers and will be presented verbally if necessary during the course of the meeting. 

Hopefully this covers all of the potential questions that you may have – however do get in touch (via email) if you have any further questions or queries OR if you need any additional information, and finally feel free to pass this information on to others who may be interested and may not have access to the internet/email. 

Kind Regards, 
christian

 FRIENDS OF IFFLEY VILLAGE

COMMENTS ON PROPOSAL FOR YELLOW LINES

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the draft proposals for Yellow Lines in Iffley including the Conservation Area. Friends of Iffley Village (FOIV) would wish to feed back the following responses in relation to the three proposals which, with the exception of the north side of Iffley Turn, fall within the Iffley Conservation Area. Iffley has seen substantial increase in traffic, with concomitant parking and access issues, over recent times, which some limited management would assist in addressing.

One key concern is that any further parking restrictions will inevitably move the problem of traffic and parking onto neighbouring roads particularly in relation to Church Way (already heavily congested during peak times) and the surrounding roads in the Conservation Area. This would become significantly more problematic should the housing new build plans in Iffley be implemented.

We agree that the central issue, particularly in relation to Mill Lane, is access for Emergency Vehicles and general road safety.

With this in mind we wish to make the following comments:

1) In relation to Mill Lane: major issues here are poorly parked cars and access to Iffley Lock for Emergency vehicles and Mill Lane residents. We would agree that double yellow lines as suggested are indicated, but see comments below about the type of yellow lines in a Conservation Area. The proposals would address the access and safety issues while preserving limited parking, thus reducing the danger of displacement onto neighbouring streets.

2) The Iffley Turn proposals. While there is concern about the large buses/lorries which often park there restricting access, and about safe child-crossing areas especially at school times, there was also concern that the proposal maybe somewhat excessive and – particularly in relation to schoolchildren crossing – could be addressed by a pelican crossing. The worry is that extensive restrictions would have a knock-on effect on the east side of Iffley Turn and neighbouring streets where there is already evidence of overflow parking from Iffley Turn.

3) The Tree Lane proposal, regarding concern about cars parking and speeding round the corner of Stone Quarry Lane into Tree Lane, was again thought somewhat excessive and that the same issue could be addressed by broken white lines and either a stop or warning sign.

4) Iffley Conservation Area. We have some concern about excessive street furniture in a Conservation Area. We suggest that, should yellow lines be planned in the Iffley Conservation Area, we consider it essential that such yellow lines that are approved are of the narrow muted cream-yellow type.