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Pleiade Associates were architects and project masterplanners for the LOX Study — a proposal for a four-runway airport near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, which was submitted to the Airports Commission in July 2013.
❖ The report is available here: LOX report 2013.
Several new highways would be required components of the project, these are:
1: Motorway link between the M4 (junction 13) and the M40 (new junction 6a).
The Existing A34 dual carriageway from the M4 to the Ridgeway crossing would be augmented to a dual three-lane / dual four-lane motorway. The remaining route (dual four-lane) would include grade separated junctions with the airport access motorway spur (j5) and the M40 (j8). [Figure: 1.1] [1.2] [1.3].
2: Swindon to Didcot route
A new A419 to A338 link: dual two / three-lane carriageway: and an A338 to 'M35' dual four-lane motorway link. [Figure: 2].
3: Diversions of the A338 and A415
The A338 between Grove and the A415 replaced with a dual two-lane / three-lane carriageway from Grove to the A420: and a realignment of the A415 as a dual two-lane carriageway up to the existing A34 Abingdon junction. [Figure: 3].
As considerable, and arguably disproportionate, emphasis has been laid on the scheme's impact on agricultural land by some politicians and interest groups, the following figure is provided here for clarity:
An earlier study was considered in SERAS, 2003* — the previous investigation into runway capacity in the South-East region — and is provided here:
Review of London Oxford Airport, Halcrow (2003). (656 KB, PDF).
Review Figure: Demand distribution (546 KB) (© 2003 Department for Transport)
For comparision (Distribution of District Demand at the existing airports, DfT 2000):
* SERAS: South East and East of England Regional Air Services Study.
The Future Development of Air Transport in the United Kingdom: South East. Department for Transport, July 2002.
