Major plans for a multi-million-pound infrastructure road for Didcot are yet to be decided, the Planning Inspectorate has confirmed. 

Earlier this year a public inquiry was held into the £269 million HIF1 scheme proposal, which would see a new dual carriageway created. 

The HIF1 proposals include building a dual carriageway on the A4130 from the A34 Milton Interchange towards Didcot, new bridges, and a Clifton Hampden bypass.

The inquiry ended in May and it can take between six and 12 months before a decision is announced. 

The Planning Inspectorate was unable to give a timeline on when a decision could be announced, but said: “The inspector is completing their report and recommendation so will be able to provide an update once it has been sent to the secretary of state.”

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The county council has been planning the Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF1) scheme for almost a decade.

In July last year the secretary of state at the time, Michael Gove, called in the planning application after the county council's planning committee refused it - despite recommendations from officers that it should be approved.

The committee’s reasons for refusal were less about the principle of the scheme and more about its details.

They pointed to outdated traffic modelling data, which used figures from 2016/17, and questioned the detailed design of the proposed bridges.

Oxfordshire Roads Action Alliance (ORAA), six affected parish councils and Planning Oxfordshire's Environment and Transport Sustainably (POETS) expert group of planners are fighting the scheme which has divided opinion.

The decision will now be made by the new secretary of state Angela Rayner.