Good news on homes / happy birthday Ed!
Hello readers - are there any of you left? Extraordinarily busy at the moment, unaccountably. Thought August was supposed to be a quiet time of year… Anyway, readers might like to wish my lovely co-councillor Mr Turner a happy 30th birthday. What good news to celebrate it too: it appears that the government is riding to our rescue on the matter of the massive homes shortage in Oxford:
The Oxford Mail has been told a top-level report due to be published next week would recommend a fundamental review of the Green Belt - particularly around Oxford - as the county is singled out for development.
Whitehall is tipped to suggest a 10 per cent increase on already-proposed housebuilding targets in the region over the next 20 years [...] in Oxfordshire, the Government wants to see 9,440 extra homes built on top of the already-proposed 47,200, sources said.
Wonderful news. Anyway, here’s a dreadful photo of me and Ed to keep you amused.
Oxford deserves better than unholy alliance of council and rent-seeking landowners…
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What _wonderful_ news! Let’s concrete over Port Meadow for the sake of some filthy proles!