The study suggests a new park and ride site along the A4074 corridor at Land South of Grenoble Road, with capacity for around 600 parking spaces.

The study also highlighted the potential for alternative park and ride capacity in the longer term at Berinsfield or the Golden Balls roundabout.

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With this discussion coming forward in the Thame, Watlington & surrounding villages property development plan.

The study also suggests the potential for alternative sites at Lodge Hill on the A34 corridor, which will be discussed at the Abingdon-on-Thames and Eastern Vale property development plan.

The study also promoted additional capacity at Peartree Park and Ride via a new site at Oxford Airport, with a capacity of around 1,100 car parking spaces.

Retaining and delivering a site at Cumnor Hill, with a capacity for 600 spaces, was also included in the study.

This site would accommodate additional demand at the Seacourt Park & Ride and mitigate the impact of flooding at Seacourt.

The proposed sites at in the Southeast of Oxfordshire would all fill a gap in the current network of park and rides.

The study also suggested that all existing Park and Rides would remain in the same place.

However, better facilities would be provided at all sites including electric vehicle charging, more parking for cycles, e-scooters and e-bikes and improved customer waiting facilities.

The study also stated that improvements are particularly needed at Parkway, Thornhill, Redbridge and Pear Tree.

A map of the current Park & Ride sites and the suggested sites (Image: Google Maps)

Capacity at Oxford Parkway would be maintained at the current level, so around 700 spaces with the option to increase car parking for park and ride by regaining some of the leased capacity or promoting the use of Bicester Park and Ride.

The construction of the Eynsham Park and Ride site was completed in 2024, as the first phase of the A40 Eynsham to Wolvercote scheme.

The next phase will see the construction of the access junction to enable the site to become operational. The scheme is awaiting the outcome of the planning application.

Upon planning approval, the scheme is ready to mobilise during 2026 with view to completion in 2028.

The Park and Ride is being planned to become operational before the end of the full works of the A40 Eynsham to Wolvercote scheme, as the access junction works are part of the first construction phase.

The report was considered by Oxfordshire County Council’s place scrutiny and overview committee on April 22 as part of an update of the actions being taken to implement the Local Transport & Connectivity Plan’s policies, plans and schemes relating to rural transport.

In the central Oxfordshire travel plan by Oxfordshire County Council the council found that park and rides have been successful in reducing congestion and supporting a shift into sustainable travel modes.

However, the plan notes that since the pandemic these sites have become underutilised as travel habits have shifted.

Lauren Boore, a mum in Abingdon, became concerned when her cat Mittens, who she’d had since birth as part of her other cat’s litter, wasn’t home for breakfast one morning.

After the beloved family pet didn’t return for another day, Ms Boore began searching for Mittens, posting an appeal on Facebook, handing out leaflets and knocking on neighbours’ doors.

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“He’s always in and out of home so I knew something wasn’t right,” she said.

Lauren Boore with her late cat, Mittens, when he was a kitten (Image: Lauren Boore)

It wasn’t until someone who had seen the appeal for missing Mittens got in touch with the cat owner and said a dog had been witnessed attacking a cat on the morning of Friday, April 17 – the day the cat went missing.

Ms Boore said: “Automatically I was like, I think I know whose dog it is. That’s when things started spinning around in my head.

“The next day I confronted the owner of the dog that I suspected because it matched the description.

Lauren Boore had Mittens since he was a kitten, when her other cat had a litter (Image: Lauren Boore)

“He denied it, to start with, but once I said there’s been a witness and it matched his dog’s description, he admitted it all, basically, and said he’d been lying to me.”

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The dog, a lurcher, had reportedly been with the owner on the playing field near their home when it ran away and chased down and killed a cat.

Ms Boore said Mittens was a beloved cat and a ‘member of the family’ (Image: Lauren Boore)

“I just wanted Mittens back. I just wish he’d done the right thing in the beginning,” she added.

“We’ve lived on the same road for nine years, and I never thought he’d be capable of doing that – he seemed like a decent person, and I’m just really, really shocked.

“I want something done about his actions, because at the end of the day, he wasn’t a responsible dog owner.”

The cat owner made a report to the police, and although an officer visited her and spoke to the neighbour, no further action has been taken.

Mittens when he was a kitten (Image: Lauren Boore)

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When contacted by this newspaper, Thames Valley Police said the case had been filed, and declined to comment further.

Ms Boore added: “I just wish people would do the right thing, when it comes to cats.

“They’re somebody’s pet, and a family member, and people should have more respect towards cats.”

Ronaldo Tasha, of Princes Street, Oxford, was jailed at a sentencing hearing at Oxford Crown Court on Friday, May 1.

The 27-year-old was sentenced for being concerned in the supply of a class A drug, namely cocaine, and being in possession of criminal property, namely large volumes of cash notes, in Oxford on April 2.

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Ronaldo Tasha (Image: TVP)

Tasha was given a sentence of 40 months immediate imprisonment.

An order was also made for the forfeiture of cash seized, totalling £17,000.

Orders were also made for the forfeiture and destruction of drugs and paraphernalia.

Tasha must also pay the victim surcharge of £228.