Oxford Clarion

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

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

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.

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