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Clarion Weekly, 4 April 2025

Clarion Weekly, 4 April 2025

💡This is your sign to register to vote, and how to do it. Elections for Oxfordshire County Council are on Thursday 1 May – so you can vote immediately after the city’s May Day celebrations. The last date to register to vote is midnight on Friday 11 April. The last

Oxfordshire’s solar boom continues

Oxfordshire’s solar boom continues

It’s a mark of the investment going into solar power right now that, just a fortnight after we ran a long read on one Oxfordshire solar farm, we’re back with a round-up of the latest projects in the county. For once, the word ‘boom’ isn’t hyperbolic. Below

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

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

25 developers in Oxford – including several colleges, the company behind the flagship Oxpens project, and stadium owner Firoka – have written to the Government saying sewage issues are causing “a complete hiatus of development”. Upgrade works to Oxford Sewage Treatment Works were due to be completed this month. Instead, as the

Clarion Weekly, 21 February 2025

Clarion Weekly, 21 February 2025

Step this way for stadium, inauguration, housing and coffee news. And is Oxford getting an Apple Store? This week’s top stories Landlords are warning of rent rises of up to 23% as a result of the Oxford-Cambridge Arc. The “investment corridor” is designed to attract employers to the area

There’s a pothole in the budget

There’s a pothole in the budget

Pothole enthusiasts of Oxfordshire, rejoice. At last the council is listening to you. Oxfordshire County Council’s budget this year is (almost) all about roads. On Tuesday, councillors will be debating the draft budget put forward by the Liberal Democrat and Green administration – and proposing their own amendments. Just like

Clarion Weekly, 7 February 2025

Clarion Weekly, 7 February 2025

This week’s top stories Oxfordshire County Council elections will take place as planned in May. This week Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner announced a number of counties where unitary authorities would be set up, requiring postponement of elections, and also named the first overarching ‘strategic authorities’ grouping several counties.

Oxford’s elections 2025: the battlegrounds

Oxford’s elections 2025: the battlegrounds

With 100 days to go, voter analysis by the Oxford Clarion suggests that Labour face severe challenges in Oxford in the county council elections on 1 May. If the voting for last year’s city council elections was replayed at the county elections, Labour would win just five divisions of