Plans to make a Sheffield street one to improve safety have been moved forward by Sheffield City Council.

The proposed Traffic Regulation Order would make the south-western part of Oxford Street one way towards Crookes Valley Road for all vehicles, as part of the Crookes Valley Road Local Safety Scheme.

There were seven collisions at the junction between 2019 and 2023, with five resulting in serious injuries.

Speaking at a Transport, Regeneration and Climate Policy Committee meeting on 30 April, Councillor Ruth Merserau said: “The interventions to reduce road danger to people on foot and cycle are really welcome.”

The scheme also proposes upgrading the existing zebra crossing to a traffic light controlled  crossing, improving footways across junctions, and widening pavements around existing mature trees to improve pedestrian access.

These changes were advertised in December 2024 in the local press, by street notices put up throughout the area, and by letter delivered to houses directly affected by the proposed one-way system.

Residents initially raised concerns that the steep incline combined with a one-way street would make it difficult to leave their homes by car during icy conditions, but this has since been resolved by reducing the original planned stretch of one-way road.

However, several residents also objected to the traffic order, as they think it could exacerbate the existing issue of excessive vehicle speeds along Oxford Street.

The Local Safety schemes programme in Sheffield is a citywide strategy to reduce road accidents by engineering safety solutions at sites with the highest injury collision rates.