The Executive Director, Development, will publish a report to introduce a final version of the Strategic Vision for Oxfordshire.   Cabinet previously considered and supported a version endorsed by the Growth Board (the Board) for consultation.

The report will update Cabinet on the consultation process, results and briefly summarise the main changes to the Vision, with the detail provided in the appendices. Finally, the report will present a final version of the Vision for consideration and agreement.

This report will be published as a supplement.

The Executive Director, Development had submitted a report which introduced a final version of the Strategic Vision for Oxfordshire (the Vision). Cabinet had previously considered and supported a version endorsed by the Growth Board for consultation.The report updated Cabinet on the consultation process, results and briefly summarised the main changes to the Vision. The report presented a final version of the Vision for consideration and agreement.

The Chair introduced the report, noting that it was being considered by all of Oxfordshire’s District Councils and the County Council. It represented the start of a process which sought to build up a vision for the County as whole and which would be owned by the Growth Board. The City Council had been able to contribute to and improve the present text. The Council would continue to make the case for an inclusive and sustainable County, something which was now beginning to emerge from the text in a way in which it had not originally.

Cabinet resolved to:

1.    Agree the Strategic Vision for Oxfordshire; and

2.    Ask that officers consider how to embed the Vision’s ambitions for Oxfordshire in future plans and strategies of the council.