Stop Destroying our City! Review the 2036 Local Plan

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

- 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 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

Protect our green spaces for people and nature
Review the 2036 Local Plan which is harming our city
Provide new affordable homes by re-purposing already developed land and buildings for housing
LIsten to local communities
Put a stop to unsustainable growth

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 Oxfordshire Growth Board we are asking you to:

· Protect our green spaces, vital for wellbeing of residents and visitors and to mitigate the climate and ecological emergency your council declared in 2019.

· Review the 2036 Local Plan which is harming our city and prioritise developed land for the new affordable housing that residents need.

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

· Put a stop to unsustainable growth, which is driving demand for land and housing far beyond what is needed or sustainable in our city