Stop Destroying our City! Review the 2036 Local Plan and the new 2040 Local Plan that will replace it

Councillor Susan Brown, Leader, Oxford City Council

Green spaces or Homes? There is room for both.

Oxford City Council is:

- Pitting the need for homes against the need for green spaces

- Holding back 430 acres of land for business when there are high vacancy rates in Oxford’s business parks and redundant retail units that are being opportunistically converted into tech spin out.

- Ignoring the changes COVID has brought to how we live and work

- Not taking action on the climate and ecological emergency they declared in 2019

- Prioritizing jobs over housing with plans for 10 times more jobs than homes

- Driving up demand by making Oxford a Fast Growth City

- Not listening to the views of local communities by using inadequate and misleading consultations

Now more than ever

We need our green spaces: for our mental health, for exercise, for nature, and to protect us from the the severe extremes of urban heating and flooding resulting from climate change.

We need to provide the right homes in the right places without destroying the green lungs of our city.

We call on Oxford City Council to

Rewrite the 'fatally flawed' 2040 Local Plan recently rejected by the national planning inspectors
Change the goal from unsustainable growth to thriving within the limits of our living planet
Protect and connect up our green spaces for people and nature
Provide new affordable homes by re-purposing already developed land and buildings for new housing rather than for new employment
Reduce the creation of thousands of new tech jobs that drive up house prices
Co-create the 2040 Local Plan with local communities

You can help to save Oxford for people and the natural environment by

Signing the Petition

Visit our the Only One Oxford website to find out more about the local campaigns and sites under threat of development.

Thank you.

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Only One Oxford

To: Councillor Susan Brown, Leader, Oxford City Council
From: [Your Name]

As Leader of Oxford City Council and a member of the Future Oxfordshire Partnership (formerly the Oxfordshire Growth Board) we are asking you to:

· Protect a robust network of joined up green spaces, vital for wellbeing of residents and visitors and to mitigate the increasingly severe impacts of the climate and ecological emergency your council declared in 2019.

· Provide new affordable homes by re-purposing already developed land and buildings for housing, releasing land set aside for employment and regenerating redundant office and retail space

· Co-create with residents a new 2040 Local Plan by changing the goal from unsustainable growth to thriving within the constraints of our city and environmental limits of our planet