Tag: Oxford City Council

The city council has revealed that 80% of Oxford’s emissions comes from buildings, with the University being the biggest contributor. The findings came from the council’s Climate Emergency Strategy Support report, released in September 2019. Among the buildings sector, the institutional buildings sub-sector is responsible for over 25% of the city’s total emissions. This is […]

Oxford City Council cancelled a talk by self-proclaimed ‘rebel priest’ Jules Gomes, which was due to take place in the Town Hall on 13th June, on the grounds that it breached their diversity policy. The Council stepped in after outrage was sparked at the subject of the free talk, entitled ‘Feminism was women’s greatest enemy – […]

A 34-year-old Polish man was admitted to John Radcliffe Hospital last Sunday and died the following day of Sepsis according to Oxford City Council. This follows a spike in deaths this winter, where as many as five people died while homeless in Oxford, between November and February. No more information other than age and nationality […]

The latest gender pay gap report for the year ending 31st March 2018 confirms that the Council does not have a median gender pay gap for basic pay. The report provides three key measures of equality: basic pay, bonuses and the proportion of males and females receiving a bonus While the median gender pay gap for […]

Oxford City Council will fly the European Union flag on the day the UK formally leaves the institution the vast majority of Oxford residents voted to remain a member of. The plan was approved by the City Council’s executive board at a meeting on Wednesday, in a move that will be seen as a statement […]

Following the growing homelessness crisis in Oxford, the City Council have announced their intentions to increase its spending on rough sleepers to more than £2 million in the coming year. Persistently high numbers of people sleeping rough, changes to funding for housing support services in Oxfordshire and plans to expand winter emergency accommodation mean that […]

Image description: The Mayors of Oxford and Ramallah sign the Twinning Agreement at Oxford Town Hall. (Elena Casale) Yesterday, the Lord Mayor of Oxford and the Mayor of Ramallah signed the Twinning Agreement between Oxford and Ramallah, Palestine. The signing is the culmination of a 15 year friendship between the two cities, lead by the […]

Image Credit: David Hawgood Oxford City council has admitted that it needs to attract more people from ethnic minority groups to work within the council.  Only 9 per cent of the council’s workforce is from a Black, Asian or ethnic minority background, whereas 19% of the city’s inhabitants are. Nigel Chapman, the council’s board member […]

Image: Tony Hisgett (CC BY SA 2.0) The Oxford City Council has announced that a new Oxford Living Wage will be set at £10.02 an hour, and will come into force from April 2019 onwards. To mark this announcement, the Oxford City Living Wage Campaign held an ‘Oxford Living Wage Rally’ on 5th November, which […]

Image Credit: TEDxSydney/Fe Lumsdaine/Lumsdaine Photography Benny Wenda, the leader of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, is to be considered for the Freedom of Oxford award in a Council debate this week. Residing in Oxford since 2002 when he was granted asylum, Wenda has continuously campaigned for the independence of West Papua, a territory […]

Image Credit: Newprogressive, Mtcv, OpenStreetMap contributors The Local Government Boundary Commission for England has recently revealed its draft plans for changes to council wards in Oxfordshire. The plans come as part of a wider review of electoral boundaries across the country, which aim to ensure that all areas of the country are equally represented. The Head of […]

Oxford City Council have announced that they will start efforts to ban all non-zero emissions vehicles from the roads of Oxford, making the city the world’s first emissions-free urban area. The plan involves a gradual ban on petrol and diesel cars and vans from roads in the city centre, starting with Cornmarket and Queen Street […]

A few hours ago, a church in East Oxford offered temporary accommodation to the 21 residents of the Osney Open House. The squatters were asked to leave the premises of the Old Power Station in Osney by 4pm today, after an interim possession order was granted to Oxford University by a local court last week […]

Oxford is often thought to be a bastion of privilege, but in truth what is more distinctive of Oxford is inequality. As well as being the home to one of the world’s most prestigious universities, it is also home to both some of the most affluent areas of the country and some of the most […]

The plan to regenerate the Osney Mead industrial estate has been welcomed by leaders throughout Oxford. Discussions had been taking place between Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council last May and are now being led between Oxford University and landowners. It is hoped that the scheme will transform the area into a mixed development […]

The elections for Oxford City Council took place yesterday, Thursday 5 May. Half of the 48 councillors are elected every other year and one seat in each of the 24 divisions is being contested this time around. The Council currently consists of 33 Labour Councillors, eight Liberal Democrats, six Greens and one independent member. Last […]

Oxford University and Oxford City Council have jointly funded a £136,000 study into the possibility of creating a shared heat network amongst the laboratories and businesses of Oxford. Should a heat network be built, it could cut carbon emissions and save an estimated 20 percent on heating bills in the long term. Oxford, it should be noted, aims […]