IF key issues were tackled in Oxford City Council, not by sheepish councillors then meaningful action would have already been taken to end homelessness and provide housing for Oxford’s key workers: with policies to end the persistent culture of low wage employment especially in the city’s expanding retail sector. (Oxford Mail, July 7)
Oxford city councillors and officers have demonstrated their willingness to breach or ignore their own policies.
Just remember the £60m Cowley shopping centre development, which has been approved with less than half of the housing set apart for “social housing”.
Breaching its own policy, the City Council approved no social housing to be part of the £440m Westgate Shopping Centre, and Barton Park “affordable homes” have a £600,000 price tag. Labour councillors easily use all the correct words when publicly addressing housing and low pay issues, but practical actions from the city councillors and officers do not match their many words.
CHAKA ARTWELL
Cranley Road, Barton
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