Order - Woodstock Fair 2025

Special event order 2025

WHEREAS Oxfordshire County Council (“the Council”) is satisfied that on the grounds of public safety, vehicular traffic in certain roads should be prohibited or restricted to enable the annual Woodstock Street Fair (“the Event”) to take place. The Council is satisfied it is not practical to hold the event other than on the road.

NOW THEREFORE the Council in exercise of its powers under Section 16A of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and of all other enabling powers hereby make the following Order:

1. Save as provided by article 3, except under the direction of or with the permission of a Police Constable in uniform, the Council or the Town Council, no person shall, when and where appropriate signage is in place, cause or permit any vehicle to proceed in the sections of road specified in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Order.
2. Save as provided by Article 3, except under the direction of or with the permission of a Police Constable in uniform or the Council or Town Council, no person shall, when and where appropriate signage is in place, cause or permit any vehicle to wait at any time in the sections of road specified in Part 2 of the Schedule to this Order.
3. Nothing in Articles 1 and 2 of this Order shall render it unlawful for a person to proceed or wait in any of the roads specified in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Order, or wait in any of the sections of road specified in Parts 1 and 2 of the Schedule to this Order if the vehicle is being used:
   • (a) for Police, Fire and Ambulance services,
   • (b) in connection with the setting up or dismantling of the Event,
   • (c) to enable access to premises adjacent to and accessible from, and only from such sections of road,
   • (d) in connection with emergency works to a road or utility services in, or on any land adjacent to a section of road specified in the Schedule to this Order.
   • (e) in the case of article 2 above, and Part 2 of the Schedule to this Order, to set down or pick up passengers, or to allow a vehicle to be loaded or unloaded, where it is not practical to do so elsewhere.
4. The sections of road specified in Part 3 of the Schedule to this Order are subject to the temporary removal of waiting restrictions in the said roads so as to enable unrestricted parking.
5. The prohibitions imposed by Articles 1 and 2 of this Order shall apply in relation to any part of the sections of roads to such extent and at such times as there are in place traffic signs (within the meaning of section 64 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984) indicating that such prohibition is in operation at that part.
6. The relevant parts of the following order shall be temporarily suspended insofar as they are affected by the restrictions applied to the Sections of Road specified in Parts 2 and 3 of the Schedule this order: 
   The Oxfordshire County Council (Woodstock - Various Roads) (Map Based) (Prohibition and Restriction of Waiting and Permitted Parking) Order 2023 (as amended).
7. This Order may be cited as the Oxfordshire County Council (Woodstock Street Fair) (Special Event) Order 2025 and shall come into force on 5 October 2025.

GIVEN UNDER the Common Seal of the Oxfordshire County Council dated this 29th day of September 2025.

schedule part 1

Prohibition of vehicles:

• (a) Market Street
• (b) Market Place
• (c) High Street
• (d) Park Street

For their entire lengths.

part 2

Prohibition of waiting:

part 3

Waiting restrictions removed in the following lengths of road to enable unrestricted waiting: