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Clarion Weekly, 11 October 2024

Clarion Weekly, 11 October 2024

This week's top stories Campaigners for Grandpont Nature Park have secured a judicial review into the proposed new Oxpens River Bridge for pedestrians and cyclists. The Friends of Grandpont group has so far raised £11,647 from a £35,000 target. They argue the bridge is “unnecessary and

Oxford City Council, 7 October 2024

Oxford City Council, 7 October 2024

We are sure you were all glued to the live-stream of the Oxford City Council meeting last night. (…just us then?) We regularly live-tweet from County Council meetings, both Cabinet and Full Council. We’ve given City Council meetings less attention, and that’s perhaps an omission. So this month,

Clarion Weekly, 4 October 2024

Clarion Weekly, 4 October 2024

This week’s top stories Oxford City Council's Local Plan was rejected by the national Planning Inspectorate – a spanner in the works for plans to tackle Oxford’s housing crisis. Council leader Susan Brown said “We are alarmed and extremely disappointed.” The council’s draft Local Plan envisaged

Oxford City's housing plan has been rejected. Why?

Oxford City's housing plan has been rejected. Why?

In a month when the headlines are all full of the Labour Government’s intentions to build 1.5m new homes, no one was expecting that same Government – through its Planning Inspectorate, or PINS for short – to reject Oxford City Council's Local Plan on the grounds it proposes

We are all the Clarion

We are all the Clarion

Occasionally we are asked “Who is behind the Oxford Clarion?” At our core is a small writing team who work for free – we have no funding from anyone. Among them are people with backgrounds in journalism, communications, and community media. Our volunteers contribute time and effort sourcing stories, writing up

Clarion Weekly, 19 September 2024

Clarion Weekly, 19 September 2024

This week’s top stories This week was Housing Week, where we explored how Oxford and the county can accommodate 100,000 new homes. * On Monday we looked at why Oxford has a housing crisis, and how it impacts everyone in the county. * On Tuesday we looked at view cones

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

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

This week we’ve examined the challenges in building within the Oxford Ring Road, building upwards, and building in the Green Belt. Where can you build? One answer remains: rural Oxfordshire. The scale of building planned for Oxfordshire is breathtaking. The big towns, like Banbury, Didcot and Witney, are getting