Don't destroy our city!

Councillor Susan Brown, Leader, Oxford City Council

Green spaces or Homes? There is room for both.

Oxford City Council is:

-Prioritising space for tech jobs over genuinely and permanently affordable homes : plans for 10 times more jobs than homes

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

- Holding back hundreds of 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.

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

- 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 write the new plan to:

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
Prioritise housing over new tech jobs that drive up house prices and increase congestion
Co-create the new 2042 Local Plan with local communities

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

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Have your say now! Write to your local councillor about what you want for our city and ask them what they are doing to address these issues.

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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 genuinely and permanently 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 2042 Local Plan by changing the goal from unsustainable growth to thriving within the constraints of our city and environmental limits of our planet