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Clarion Weekend, 12 December 2025

Clarion Weekend, 12 December 2025

Happy Friday to all our readers. Take a break from your week and your festive preparations with the weekend Clarion. We have the latest on the congestion charge and Kidlington dump (of course) but also two excellent long reads, important Lego news, and good news for mouth cancer patients at

Oxford’s hidden food emergency – and the community filling the gaps

Oxford’s hidden food emergency – and the community filling the gaps

Wolsey, Maxwell, and Morris: the curious philanthropists who made Oxford

Wolsey, Maxwell, and Morris: the curious philanthropists who made Oxford

The Clarion, 9 December 2025

The Clarion, 9 December 2025

Clarion Weekend, 5 December 2025

Clarion Weekend, 5 December 2025

Right town, wrong place?

Right town, wrong place?

The Clarion, 2 December 2025

The Clarion, 2 December 2025

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Twelve easy hacks to beat Oxford’s congestion charge

Twelve easy hacks to beat Oxford’s congestion charge

Don't want to pay? We got you. Here's the tea on how you can avoid the congestion charge entirely, and still visit all your favourite places in the city centre. Here's the official website, but our hacks are better. Oxfordshire residents, you got this!

Oxford’s traffic emergency needs a bold approach – Luke Marion on the congestion charge

Oxford’s traffic emergency needs a bold approach – Luke Marion on the congestion charge

Legal challenge to Oxford’s LTNs withdrawn

Legal challenge to Oxford’s LTNs withdrawn

Oxford’s proposed congestion charge – the reaction

Oxford’s proposed congestion charge – the reaction

Breaking: Oxford congestion charge could start this autumn

Breaking: Oxford congestion charge could start this autumn

The politics of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (spring 2024 edition)

The politics of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (spring 2024 edition)

“Impeccably balanced”: the Oxford Mail’s low-traffic neighbourhood reporting

“Impeccably balanced”: the Oxford Mail’s low-traffic neighbourhood reporting

Infrastructure

Oxford’s commuter future

Oxford’s commuter future

Could Oxford learn from Copenhagen and Cambridge? We ask if rail commuting could be an answer to the city’s housing woes. In 1947, Copenhagen’s Urban Planning Institute set out a “finger plan” for development of the city. To avoid uncontrolled sprawl, the finger plan proposed that new houses

Abingdon Reservoir: how much will it cost?

Abingdon Reservoir: how much will it cost?

Abingdon Reservoir: what are the risks?

Abingdon Reservoir: what are the risks?

Abingdon Reservoir: is there an alternative?

Abingdon Reservoir: is there an alternative?

Oxfordshire’s solar boom continues

Oxfordshire’s solar boom continues

“Oxford is uninvestable”: developers say sewage is blocking 18,000 homes

“Oxford is uninvestable”: developers say sewage is blocking 18,000 homes

Water: Why Abingdon’s mega reservoir is making waves

Water: Why Abingdon’s mega reservoir is making waves

New Towns

Right town, wrong place?

Right town, wrong place?

Outline plans have been unveiled for Chalgrove Airfield, Oxfordshire’s most controversial housing development. Can the merits of a “21st century sustainable market town” outweigh the problems of its location? Chalgrove New Town would be located on one of Oxfordshire’s many historic airfields, ten miles south-east of Carfax. It

Oxford’s commuter future

Oxford’s commuter future

Housing Week: Building Out – can Oxfordshire solve Oxford's housing crisis?

Housing Week: Building Out – can Oxfordshire solve Oxford's housing crisis?

Oxfordshire’s biggest ever new town

Oxfordshire’s biggest ever new town

Culham Town: the future of housing in Oxfordshire?

Culham Town: the future of housing in Oxfordshire?

Eynsham’s garden village can be net zero after all

Eynsham’s garden village can be net zero after all

Housing Week

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Housing Week: Building Out – can Oxfordshire solve Oxford's housing crisis?

Housing Week: The Green Belt

Housing Week: Finding space in a medieval city

Housing Week: Building Up, or view cones vs the dreaming spires

Housing Week: Oxford needs homes. Why? And where?

Infrastructure Week

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Transport: Full steam ahead… or on your bike?

Water: Why Abingdon’s mega reservoir is making waves

Energy: Will the sun shine on Botley West Solar Farm?

Sewage: The unsavoury blockage in Oxford’s planning pipeline

Infrastructure week: What’s stopping Oxfordshire’s new houses?

Housing

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Right town, wrong place?

A history of council homes in Oxford

Are repurposed garages the future of Oxford city housing?

The day the walls came down