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Housing Week: Finding space in a medieval city

Housing Week: Finding space in a medieval city

The best article we ever wrote, but no one read, was about turning city garages into homes. We link to it often in the hope people might eventually read it. Repurposing garages as housing may not sound thrilling, but it’s one of the ingenious ways of finding space for

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

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

Opening the Clarion’s Housing Week yesterday, we noted that Oxford is the second most expensive place to live in Britain, after Kensington & Chelsea. London, famously, has built upwards. The Shard. The Gherkin. The Walkie-Talkie. The Cheesegrater. The Scalpel. We promise we have not made any of these up.

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

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

Oxford is the second least affordable place to live in the UK – after Kensington & Chelsea. In this, the first of a five part series of Clarion long reads, we examine why Oxford has such a housing shortage, and why it matters far beyond the simple cost of your rent

Clarion Weekly, 13 September 2024

Clarion Weekly, 13 September 2024

Next week is Housing Week here at the Oxford Clarion. In a series of five long reads, we'll be looking at the issues around building new houses in Oxford and Oxfordshire - and asking what can be done to help more people get homes in Britain's

Must new houses mean new roads? Campaigners and councils clash

Must new houses mean new roads? Campaigners and councils clash

Can you have new houses without new roads? Until now, received wisdom in Oxfordshire has always been that one requires the other – but campaigners are now calling this into question. The south of the county, including South Oxfordshire and the Vale of White Horse, has been earmarked for up to

Fully charged: how Oxford became an electric superpower

Fully charged: how Oxford became an electric superpower

Quietly, Oxford has become a global powerhouse in electric vehicle charging and energy storage. You might have noticed more electric taxis, and electric buses. If you're really attentive you might have noticed more EV charge points on the roads, or even the very large one up at Redbridge.

The airfield where flying taxis rub shoulders with pre-war Rolls Royces

The airfield where flying taxis rub shoulders with pre-war Rolls Royces

A vegan festival, flying taxis, and vintage Rolls Royces converted to electric may seem like strange bedfellows, but these and more are taking shape on a converted airfield on the edge of Bicester. The site of RAF Bicester has been home to heritage vehicle preservation since 2013, but now it