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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: The Green Belt

Housing Week: The Green Belt

It’s remarkable how Oxford has barely grown in 50 years. Here’s the city limits in 1968: And today: You can while away a happy half-hour playing ‘Spot the Difference’. Here’s a few starters: Greater Leys (mid-1980s). Barton Park (2019 onwards). A little infill around Sandhills and Wood

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