You said, we did

In Summer 2023, the Programme consulted on five of its schemes – public realm schemes for Oxford Street and Oxford Circus, along with highway schemes Marylebone / Fitzrovia, Oxford Street West and Eastcastle Street. The consultation aimed to gauge support for scheme proposals and solicit ideas and feedback on design proposals from local community members, wider stakeholders and other interested parties.  

Through the six-week consultation period, OSP received 1,612 questionnaire responses, 27 direct emails of written feedback, over 180 attendees of in person presentations, over 500 people engaged at three separate markets across the borough, 12,800 postcards delivered to local residences and 20,755 views of the programme website. A full report of the consultation, questionnaire results, and feedback can be found on the OSP website.  

All feedback gathered in response from stakeholders and the community has been and will continue to be a guiding influence behind the programme’s design, execution, and maintenance. As part of the Fairer Westminster strategy, the following document shares how the Programme has considered and, in many cases, integrated public input received through consultation, into the latter design stages for the highway schemes and the Oxford Street Stage 2 design process. The Programme anticipates that it will publish a Part 2 to this document following Oxford Street Stage 3 design and additional design stages for Oxford Circus to proceed construction phases for the Oxford Street or Oxford Circus schemes. 

We asked all willing to respond - to what extent do you support or oppose the proposed Oxford Street Programme? The questionnaire proceeded to gauge support for its individual schemes, ask questions about specific aspects of each proposal including ones that aimed to gauge which issues might be more important to respondents and gave respondents the opportunity to write in any remaining thoughts. Here, we outline some of the elements that you asked for, and how we’ve updated the Programme in response.