Presentation by Cllr Ian Hudspeth, Leader of Oxfordshire County Council on new developments and future plans for the Local Autority at Constructing Excellence Oxford Event: Future Capital Investment projects and development opportunities within the Built Environment of Oxford and the surrounding County - 14 Jan 16. Developments include the transport network and capital projects pipeline

1. OXFORDSHIRE GROWTH AND
INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
Ian Hudspeth
Leader Oxfordshire County Council

3. The Challenge
and Opportunity

4. Transport Network
– Key Corridors
70,000
The A34 in Oxfordshire carries
vehicles per day
102,000
The M40 in Oxfordshire carries
The A40 in Oxfordshire carries
45,000
vehicles per day
vehicles per day
The A420 in Oxfordshire carries
20,000 vehicles per day

5. Bicester
Oxford
Science Vale Oxford
• 10,000 homes
• 20,000 jobs
• 9,000 homes
• 14,000 jobs
• Retail expansion – including Westgate
• 16,000 homes
• 20,000 jobs
Lots of Growth

6. Major Projects Capital Programme
PreviousSpend Total
£16,868,315 £109,501,002
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Winnaway Cycle Route
Milton Interchange
Chilton Slips
Harwell Link Rd Section 2 (Hagbourne Hill)
Woodstock Road ROQ
Wolvercote Roundabout
Cutteslowe Roundabout
Backhill Lane Cycle Tunnel and Junction
Science Vale Cycle Routes (£800k allocation, £4.5m commitment)
Harwell Campus Entrance
Bicester London Rd Crossing
Access to Headington - Junction Improvements
Featherbed Lane & Steventon Lights
Harwell Link Rd Section 1 (B4493 to A417)
Thames towpath improvements and ped/cycle bridge at Oxpens
Hinksey Hill Ph2 (Northbound Slip Rd)
Loop Farm Link Road
A40 Corridor
Connections to Oxford Station
A34 Lodge Hill
Charbridge Lane
GW1
Feasibility
GW2
PreliminaryDesign
GW3
Detailed Design
GW4
Procurement
GW5
Construction
2015/16 2016/17
£23,626,639 £24,754,463 £33,210,585 £8,806,000 £2,235,000
2017/18 2018/19 2019/20

7. Our Devolution Proposition: Driving Economic Growth
The Challenge
Securing Oxfordshire’s economic potential
depends on our ability to tackle underlying
challenges which constrain growth, we
therefore need to:
• Improve the capacity of the strategic
and local transport infrastructure to
support housing growth
• Accelerate housing delivery that
hampers growth and is leading to
recruitment and retention problems
for many employers
• Accelerate growth in the ‘Knowledge
Economy Spine’ to accommodate high
growth innovation led business and
employment opportunities
• Meet increasing demand for higher
level skills to support the needs of the
local economy
• Address increasing demands and
pressure on resources for health and
social care.
Devolution Deal - Ask
• Secure £1,400m Gain Share Mechanism
• Devolved Health & Wellbeing Budgets
• Devolved Skills SFA/EFA Budgets
Devolution Deal - Offer
• Accelerate delivery – 100,000 homes by 2031
• Deliver 85,600 FTE jobs by 2031
• Deliver at least £3.5bn GVA/annum from 2031
To work with Government to:
• Secure agreement to an LGF 3 Allocation to
support Innovation & skills priorities
• Secure the support of Network Rail for defined
Track & station upgrades
• Secure the support of Highways England for the
A34 and Oxford – Cambridge Expressway
investment
• Secure investment support for our OBS Growth
Hub.

9. Frideswide Square Complete

10. Oxford to Cambridge Expressway

11. Oxford Science
Transit
Integrated
information
and
technology
Quicker more
reliable
transport
journeys
Improved
links to
airports and
innovation and
growth Areas
Smart
transactional
customer
orientated
system

13. Winslow
Bletchley
Bicester Town
High Wycombe
Princes Risborough
Milton
Keynes
Bedford
Oxford
Aylesbury
Reading
Didcot
London
Marylebone

14. Science Transit – transport innovation

15. Thank you