A 'BUCKET list' of goals for Oxfordshire’s future, including that the county should be on the way to a ‘carbon negative’ future by 2050, has been signed off.
The Oxfordshire Strategic Vision 2050 is a statement of common terms between the county’s different councils for how roads, housebuilding and business should develop over the next 30 years.
It also takes environmental and health issues into account.
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Oxfordshire County Council’s cabinet - its most senior councillors - signed up to the final version of the vision at their meeting on Tuesday.
The vision has previously been criticised for being vague and undefined by the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
But its backers in the councils and Oxfordshire’s Growth Board say it will help to set common aims for the Oxfordshire Plan 2050, a draft document laying out where new homes could be built in future.
As the cabinet signed off on the plans, Labour opposition transport spokesman Damian Haywood said it needed more explanation of ‘how’ it would be enacted.
Council and growth board staff are set to draw up targets to address this.
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