Housing
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OX Place submits planning application for 32 affordable homes at Meadow Lane in Iffley
The homes, in a mix of houses and maisonettes, will be 100% affordable, with 19 council homes let at social rent and 13 homes sold for shared ownership.
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GreenSquareAccord to provide 25 new affordable homes in Littlemore
The new homes will be a combination of one-, two- and three-bed flats set in adjacent three-storey apartment blocks, providing 14 social rent homes and a further 11 homes under a shared ownership scheme.
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Phase one of Newman Place in Oxford with 102 new homes completed
The development in Littlemore Park, just three miles south of Oxford city centre, will bring a total of 273 new affordable homes to the area, with 162 for shared ownership and 111 for social rent, with priority purchase options given to NHS key workers.
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Bellway launches final consultation on Water Eaton development plans
The consultation is a chance to see how the project has evolved since the design development consultation this summer and the initial consultation held in Autumn 2021.
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City council set to provide emergency beds for people experiencing rough sleeping this winter
The council activates its severe weather emergency protocol (SWEP) on every night that the Met Office forecasts freezing overnight temperatures weather for anyone experiencing rough sleeping.
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Planning decisions will be affected as West Oxfordshire council confirms housing land shortfall
The council has published that it can evidence only a 4.1-year supply for new homes versus the 5-year target set by the government of its local plan to carry full weight when planning applications come forward.
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Vale District Council takes action to help deliver affordable housing
A new housing delivery strategy and action plan to help bring more genuinely affordable housing to the Vale of White Horse has been approved by its Cabinet Members.
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Council considers discounted housing for key workers in bid to solve staffing crisis in care
Oxfordshire Council County is considering offering discounted key worker housing as an incentive to solve the staffing crisis in Oxfordshire’s social care sector.
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Thrive Homes acquires over 500 homes in Eastern England from L&Q
Following a period of stock rationalisation by L&Q, Thrive Homes was identified as the best suited buyer for the housing portfolio in Cherwell, Chiltern, East Hertfordshire, South Northamptonshire, Hitchin, and Wycombe.
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West Oxfordshire District Council to publish new housing land supply position
It comes after the Planning Inspectorate found that calculations made by staff at the council had been overestimated by up to a quarter.
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New Community Share Offer to build affordable homes in Oxford goes live
The initiative is being led by Oxfordshire Community Land Trust (OCLT), who are building eight apartments at Crofts Court.
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Consultation open on draft housing, homelessness and rough sleeping strategy
It sets out the council’s intentions to provide more affordable and low-carbon homes, improve conditions for renters in all tenures and do more to prevent homelessness and rough sleeping.
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Zero-carbon homes completed in Southmoor with lending from Triodos Bank UK
Built using a zero-carbon construction method, which also delivers net-zero energy, Springfield Meadows is considered to be one of the UK’s most sustainable residential property development projects.
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Green light for the first 317 new homes at Oxford North’s Canalside
This comes as the reserved matters application (RMA) for the project’s residential development partner, The Hill Group, has been resolved to be approved by Oxford City Council’s planning committee.
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Catesby Estates sells 8.5-acre site in Marcham to Bloor Homes
The consented development on the south east edge of Marcham has outline planning permission for up to 90 new homes, 35% of which will be affordable housing.
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Tribunal orders management company to refund £84k rent in unlicensed HMO
While the tribunal accepted that the failure to obtain a licence was “by omission rather than deliberate”, it found that the cluster flats needed one and were, therefore, in breach of Oxford’s additional HMO licensing scheme.