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The Housing Crisis in Oxfordshire: Balancing Growth and Sustainability

Explore the urgent need for housing in Oxfordshire and the environmental impacts of rapid development. Learn how population growth is outpacing housing capacity and the implications for the county's future. Delve into the challenges of meeting housing targets while staying mindful of climate change commitments.

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The Housing Crisis in Oxfordshire: Balancing Growth and Sustainability

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  1. Housing need and reality The Future of Oxfordshire Richard Harding

  2. What sort of Oxfordshire do we want? View from Hartslock, near Goring Do we want this?

  3. Singapore or this?

  4. Timeline to Disaster

  5. 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

  6. Where will the people come from?

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. REALITY ACTUAL FACTS MYTH BUST

  10. 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

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