A council housing scheme described as one of the most significant in Oxford in a decade has finally been given the go-ahead.
Yesterday, (Monday, November 7) Oxford City Council's decision-making executive board agreed to demolish 153 condemned Orlit houses on the Rose Hill estate and replace them with 254 new homes, comprising 141 'affordable' and 113 private houses.
The prefabricated Orlit houses were built in 1949 but within years they will be unfit for habitation. Improving the council homes in Rose Hill would have cost the council £2.7m.
Work, which had already been agreed in principle, will start by September next year.
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