{"id":66818,"date":"2025-08-14T16:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66818\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:47:08","slug":"oxford-united-stadium-planning-decision-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66818\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford United stadium planning decision due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roads around the sitepublished at 17:02 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>17:02 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/05d66bbe-9b1b-4aab-b687-dfb7f152442f.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Bethan Nimmo<br \/>BBC Radio Oxford<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roads around the site are now being discussed &#8211; a key consideration as many objections centre around traffic concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Principal planning officer Laura Bell says key routes around the site will see &#8220;increased pressure&#8221; from proposed development and other strategic sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oxford Road is expected to be temporarily closed &#8211; for 35 minutes pre and post match &#8211; for the safety of its supporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> The proposals for dealing with traffic issues include:<\/p>\n<p>       Enhancing public transport<\/p>\n<p>      Prioritising active travel with new cycle lanes, footways and crossings<\/p>\n<p>      Variable Message Signs and crowd management<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The highways authority (Oxfordshire County Council) says there will be an impact, but it could not be considered &#8220;severe&#8221;, in part because it&#8217;s out of network peak hours and for a relatively short period of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Bell tells the meeting that, therefore, the local highways authority and National Highways do not object.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An aerial image on google maps of the site, with labels highlighting the site and the roads\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fcc72c32-cf71-4b1c-94fe-e4ae41e041aa.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"976\" height=\"549\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Google<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roads around the sitepublished at 17:02 British Summer Time 17:02 BST Bethan NimmoBBC Radio Oxford Roads around the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-66818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}