THE list of property put up for sale by Oxford City Council makes fascinating reading.

Of course, your attention won’t go too far past spending £180,000 on an old public toilet to convert into rather interesting living quarters.

Stephanie Jenkins, of the Headington and Marston Neighbourhood Forum, raises a point worth debating over whether the sales are necessary or desirable.

It is quite right that the council shouldn’t flog off of its assets just to get some cash.

If there is a feasible use for some buildings in its portfolio then it would make more sense to retain them. Once they’re sold, they are indeed gone.

But the property being sold off seems ill-suited to the future needs of the council and it would be derelict in its duty if it retained crumbling structures through a misplaced sense of public ownership.

Far better the money be used to avoid some of the cuts that are planned.

This is our money and so it should be used for the good of the community rather than being tied up uselessly in bricks and mortar.

If it all comes off you can just see Bob Price rubbing his hands and crowing: Lovely jubbly. Next year Rodders, we’ll all be millionaires.