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Housing need and reality. The Future of Oxfordshire. Richard Harding. What sort of Oxfordshire do we want?. View from Hartslock , near Goring. Do we want this?. Singapore. or this?. Timeline to Disaster. The context. This is a doubling of houses and population across the county.
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Housing need and reality The Future of Oxfordshire Richard Harding
What sort of Oxfordshire do we want? View from Hartslock, near Goring Do we want this?
Singapore or this?
The context This is a doubling of houses and population across the county See: CPRE Oxon newsletter, Spring 2018 - http://www.cpreoxon.org.uk/resources/newsletters
And then there is Climate Change A new house takes 50 tons of carbon to build a house – a million houses is one sixth the UKs annual emission We cannot achieve our carbon emission commitments with this sort of development https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-local-authority-and-regional-carbon-dioxide-emissions-national-statistics
The reality The SHMA would require an increase of 12,000 in Oxfordshire’s population a year – between 2001 and 2017 the population has risen by 5000 per year (less than 4000 in 2017)*. The SHMA and Local Plans require 5000 new houses per year in Oxfordshire - between 2001 and 2016 there was a growth of 1600 households per year*. For example in South Oxfordshire in the last seven years has built 4000 houses (600 per year) – to hit its target of 28,000 it will need to build 1500 per year. This all adds up to there is not the capacity nor demand to build this amount of housing Source: Office for National Statistics
REALITY ACTUAL FACTS MYTH BUST
Plans for massive growth in Oxfordshire are being developed by the Growth Board and National Government with little debate or accountability • If such growth were to happen it will put massive strains on our natural environment and social structure • If it doesn’t happen we will loss all control on our planning processes • These plans will be a disaster for Climate Change • There is a serious democratic deficit in these decisions