Oxfordshire, Compulsory Purchase Order for Highway Infrastructure Improvements

OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

DIDCOT GARDEN TOWN HIGHWAYS INFRASTRUCTURE – A4130 IMPROVEMENT (MILTON GATE TO COLLETT ROUNDABOUT, A417 DIDCOT TO CULHAM LINK ROAD, AND A415 CLIFTON HAMPDEN BYPASS) COMPULSORY PURCHASE ORDER 2022

The Highways Act 1980

The Acquisition of Land Act 1981

1. Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by the above Acts, on 30 June 2023 confirmed, with modifications, the Oxfordshire County Council (Didcot Garden Town Highways Infrastructure – A4130 Improvement (Milton Gate to Collett Roundabout, A417 Didcot to Culham Link Road, and A415 Clifton Hampden Bypass) Compulsory Purchase Order 2022, submitted by Oxfordshire County Council.

2. The Order as confirmed provides for the purchase for the purposes of —

   (1) the improvement of the A4130 Principal Road –

   (a) from a point approximately 405 metres west of its junction with Milton Gate to its existing roundabout junction including a new roundabout junction to be located to the east of this location with a new 3-arm link to the north and south and associated landscaping, drainage and ancillary works, and from a point to the east of this roundabout to the Princes Manor Avenue including the construction of a new A4130 Principal Road dual carriageway to be located to the south of the existing A4130 Principal Road and including a new road bridge and railway bridge structure to carry the A4130 Principal Road over the Great Western Railway Line corridor at Didcot North Junction;

(b) the construction of a highway, as the proposed A4130 Principal Road, from a point on the existing A4130 Principal Road at its proposed roundabout junction to be located some 142 metres east of the junction of the A4130 Principal Road with Bireleyes 427/12 (Western Valley/Cow Lane), generally south eastwards, for a distance of 820 metres to a new 3-arm roundabout junction with the new A4130 Principal Road carriageway, and including a new road bridge across over the A4130 Principal Road, the Great Western Railway Line and the Classified Unnumbered Milton Road and bridge, then road construction forming a new link to the A4130 Road, approximately 180 metres off the A4130 Hithercroft roundabout junction;

(2) the construction of a highway –

(a) from its junction with the A4130 Principal Road, west of Collett roundabout, crossing over private Railway Line, north-west the Appleford Siding, on bridge, to the generally north-west of Appleford Level Crossing, generally northwards to a new roundabout junction with the B4016, including a new Sutton Courtenay roundabout junction with the B4016 to the south, and a new T Junction to the north and the third exit crossing the River Thames, the railway bridge, then northwards, to its junction with the A415 at Clifton Hampden at a point including the new Clifton Hampden roundabout, the realignment of the A415 in both directions from the proposed Clifton Hampden roundabout junctions, approximately 380 metres west and east of the junction with the new proposed A415 Clifton Hampden Bypass. The section of the existing highway from approximately 160 metres west of the existing junction of the A415 and B4015 to the junction with the A415 and High Street Clifton Hampden;

(b) from the A415 Clifton Hampden roundabout junction, eastwards, with a new road bypassing Clifton Hampden village to the south and including new roundabout junction with the B4015 Oxford Road and T-Junction to the Science Park, including river and railway bridges, to its junction with a new roundabout junction of the new link road with the A4130 Didcot to Culham Link Road and Clifton Hampden Bypass Road to the east of the former railway;

(3) the improvement of highways including provision of new junctions, junction improvements, associated infrastructure and highways drainage as follows:

(a) A4130 Improvement and new A4130 link –

• Land for the A4130 Principal Road and its roundabout junction with Milton Gate to west of the junction of the A4130 with Great Western Railway Line;

• Land for Principal Road roundabout junction and link to Didcot A Power Station;

• Land for the Didcot Enterprise development site, lying to the west of the A4130 Principal Road and the Milton Park western access track, including temporary working site and access to underground cable;

• Land for access tracks from Backhill Lane, Backhill Wood, south and adjacent to National Cycle Network Route 5;

• Land for access to Private Access Road, Bireleyes 427/13 (Cow Lane/Western Valley), and Bireleyes 427/12 (Footpath & verge) to west of the A4130 Principal Road, from a point to the east of the Hithercroft junction and to the west of the Great Western Railway Line;

(b) Land of the RWE Generation UK Ltd car park, private access roads Purchas Road and Chimney Road and other crossing access tracks, site outbuildings, and site attenuation pond, of the eastern part of the site of the former Didcot A Power Station, lying to the north west and north of the Trident Business Park and to the west of the A4130 and its roundabout junction with Hawsksworth;

(c) Land of the A4130 Principal Road, from and including its roundabout junction with Hawsksworth, north eastwards, then eastwards, then to and including its roundabout junction with Collett, then eastwards to the western side of the Cherwell Valley Railway Line, at Didcot North Junction;

(d) Land comprising a length of Bridleway 372/24/10 (Sutton Courtenay) and National Cycle Network 5 route, extending northwards off the A4130/Hawksworth roundabout;

(e) Land of the highway Collett, on the south side of the A4130 Principal Road;

(f) Agricultural land, lying to the north west and north of the A4130 Principal Road, between its roundabout junction with Hawsksworth and its roundabout junction with Collett and Hawsksworth and lying to the north of the A4130 Principal Road, to east of the A4130 roundabout junction with Collett and to the west of the Cherwell Valley Railway Line at Didcot North Junction.

New A417 Didcot to Culham Link Road

(a) Land comprising the whole of Bridleway 106/3/10 (Appleford), from its junction with the A4130 Principal Road Collett roundabout, northwards to its junction with Restricted Byway 106/4/10 (Appleford) just west of the Cherwell Valley Railway Line at Appleford Level Crossing;

(b) Land of an east-west private access road, with Bridleway 106/3/10 (Appleford) mentioned in (a) above, between Restricted Byway 106/4/10 (Appleford) and the site of the proposed roundabout, and to the junction with its easterly lying private access road (haul route), including the eastern side of the Milton Park boundary;

(c) The A417 from Appleford Siding, and the link to the Collett roundabout junction, and just to the north of Hardington House and its fishing pond, and northern field private access route, with 106/4/10 access road, on the western side of the Cherwell Valley Railway Line, at Appleford Level Crossing to a point fairly close to the B4016, then south and west of the B4016;

(d) Agricultural land, lying to the east and west of Brideley 106/3/10 (Appleford), on the south-east and south-west of Brideley 106/3/10, and lying to the east and west of the B4016 and the southern point of the new roundabout at the Sutton Courtenay roundabout;

(e) Agricultural land, lying to the north and south of the B4016, to the west of the B4016, including part of the proposed roundabout junction of the B4016, and to the west and south of Hardington House;

(f) Agricultural land, lying to the north and south of the B4016, south of Hardington House, and lying to the north and south of a proposed roundabout junction and site of commercial/industrial buildings. Lying to east of Brideley 106/3/10 (Appleford) and site of disused, private access road and to the south of Hardington House;

(g) Land comprising grassland and scrubland, lying to the west of a westerly 1976 private access road to retirement length of Brideley 106/3/10 (Appleford), and the southern side of the northern corridor roadway from the former F James Litle Pallets and extending northwards from the former F James Litle Pallets and extending northwards from the former F James Litle Pallets and extending northwards from the former F James Litle Pallets and extending northwards from the former F James Litle Pallets and extending... (repeats)

(h) Agricultural land, lying to the north east of an easterly lying private access road (haul road), on the south of a large agricultural land holding lying to the east of the southern line of Hardington House fishing ponds;

(i) Land comprising the eastern carriage of a disused quarry/ restored after use landfill site, lying to the west of Bridleway 106/5/10 (Appleford) west of Hardington House access, and lying to the west and north west of Hardington House;

(j) Land comprising the western carriage of and part of the Hardington House fishing pond, lying to the east of Brideley 106/3/10 to the north of Hardington House;

(k) Land comprising the southern, eastern, western and northern edges of disused quarry and shrub and planted land, and pond, lying to the west of the site of the FCC Environment Waste Transfer Station, to the south of Restricted Byway 106/4/10 (Appleford) running in a southerly-eastern direction from Appleford Siding Private Railway Line Corridor and the Cherwell Valley Railway Line and Bridleway 106/3/10 (Appleford)—the entire restricted path;

(l) Land comprising agricultural land to the east of the site of commercial/industrial buildings, lying to the east of FCC Environment Waste Transfer Station, and disused quarry and pond, and lying to the east of and in vicinity of and below a water site’s gas balancing pond;

(m) Agricultural land and pond, on the northern part of agricultural land to the east of the site of the FCC Waste Transfer Station;

(n) Land comprising grassland (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), lying to the south east of the private access road known as Thames Lane and the Culham Science Centre and to the north west of 3 and 4 Fullamoor Cottages, Clifton Hampden;

(o) Agricultural land, lying to the north at the A415 Abingdon Road Bypass to the north east of the private access road to Fullamoor Farm, extending approximately 380 metres west of the junction of the A415 with the Access Track running westward to the west of the Clifton Hampden Bypass (Agricultural land, Clifton Hampden);

(p) Agricultural land, to the south and north of the A415 Abingdon Road Bypass, from the eastern edge of the junction with the A415 with the Access Track and to the track level to the westerly arm of the Station Road (running which lies to the south of the Cherwell Valley Railway Line)

(q) Land at the southern frontage of Culham N Site, lying in the corner of the A415 Abingdon Road and its strip of private access road leading south, from the boundary of Culham N Site. Including the entire boundary of Station Road;

(r) Land comprising the southern grassed and wooded planted frontage off the Culham Science Centre and of lengths of the main private access road to the Centre. Main Avenue, off the A415, off lengths of private access located west/eastwards and east/west of Main Avenue, including the whole length of the cul-de-sac to the north of the T junction access road;

(s) Land comprising lengths of the A415 private access and crossing the south/north/south alignment of a single carriageway from the A415 to the Culham Science Centre and the southern frontage of the Culham Science Centre off the A415;

(t) Land comprising grassland (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)), lying to the south east of the private access road known as Thames Lane and the Culham Science Centre and to the north west of 3 and 4 Fullamoor Cottages, Clifton Hampden;

(u) Agricultural/rable land and Home Farm, lying to the west of the B4015 Oxford Road and to the north east and north west of Clifton Hampden Village, from the east of the A415 at the junction with the B4015 Oxford Road, and extending approximately 190 metres to the north east and 140 metres to the north west (Clifton Hampden, 171/3/20, Clifton Hampden. 171/4/10);

(v) Land at junction including lengths of the B4015 Oxford Road, from a point approximately 50 metres north of 171/4/10 (Clifton Hampden), continuing southwards to the junction at the junction with the B4015 with private access road to The Coppice and The Old Stables, Clifton Hampden;

(w) Land comprising garden, agricultural/arable land and part of woodland planted frontage and part of the private access road, at the junction of the B4015 Oxford Road with the private access road to The Coppice and the Old Stables, and part of The Coppice and The Old Stables, Clifton Hampden;

THE NEW RIGHTS to be compulsorily acquired, over 2.9374 hectares of land, as described in the Schedule to the Order and are shown coloured blue on the associated Order Maps (Sheets 1, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13). They are sought over the access road to Milton Heights Service Station; the access road to the Premier Inn – Oxford South (Didcot) and The Applecart Beefeater car park (Sheet 1); over the Classified Unnumbered Milton Road, just to the south east of the private access road off Milton Road to the Didcot B Power Station and the site of the former Didcot A Power Station (Sheet 2); over land lying to south of Hartringham House and of the north east corner of an agricultural attenuation pond lying to the north east of Hartringham House (Sheet 9); over land of the north east corner of an agricultural attenuation pond lying to the north east of Hartringham House (Sheet 9); over land of the Appleford Sidings Private Railway corridor, and of woodland lying to south thereof lying to the east and leading to the main direction road (Sheet 9); over part of an existing private access road, including its verge, and of the National Rail Railway corridor; to the south of the B4016 and to the west of the Cherwell Valley Railway Line (Sheet 10); land lying to the south of the B4016, just west of Bridge Farm House and to the opposite the junction of the B4016 with Footpath 373/21/50 (Sutton Courtenay) (Sheet 12); and land down to the River Thames and its embankment and agricultural land lying to the south and west of agricultural land lying to the south and west of agricultural land lying to the south and west of agricultural land lying... (repeats)

Note: The “rights” include one or more of the rights listed below, not all of which relate to each particular area of the aforementioned land.