Today, we're launching Greater Oxford – a new proposed council for Oxford and its immediate surroundings. Our proposal would bring local decisions under one roof and closer to the people they affect. This would help us build more affordable homes, provide new bus connections, protect green spaces and enhance biodiversity, and create new, secure jobs for our children and grandchildren. Councillor Susan Brown, Leader of Oxford City Council, explains the proposals. For more information, visit great

Work is progressing at Fishers Vale, the new development in Marston, and we were invited in to take a look around home number one! Oxford City Council’s wholly owned company OX Place is working in partnership with Lucy Developments to deliver this development of 40 affordable homes in Marston Paddock, off Butts Lane, and the first homes are approaching completion. The development includes 26 houses and 14 flats, with 21 homes for social rent. All houses and ground floor flats have private garden

12 new council homes in the beating heart of East Oxford... That's what's currently being built in Princes Street, just off Cowley Road, by our housing company OX Place. As Councillor Linda Smith, Cabinet Member for Housing, explains, these one and two-bedroom homes will be let at affordable social rent — around 40% of what a private landlord charges — to people in housing need on our waiting list. But that's not all. Alto, our newest development, will see another 14 shared-ownership homes come