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

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

[Editor's note: since publishing the piece originally, we received a statement from the Liberal Democrats. We have duly edited the piece to include the statement. This is a developing story.] In a month when the headlines are all full of the Labour Government’s intentions to build 1.

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

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