Merging the city council’s depots at a new location has long been on the cards and a suitable site will become available. It’s just a matter of time. Would you support using Cowley Marsh depot for the rebuilding of Temple Cowley pool, bringing healthy leisure facilities closer to more people? East Oxford Lib Dems would […]

You’ve been telling the Lib Dem team that housing is the No.1 issue for East Oxford. More than 5,000 people on the waiting list; bad landlords evading their obligations to tenants in mouldy bedsits; responsible landlords struggling with red-tape… We have London house-prices on West Midland wages, mortgages costing half an average salary, pressure for […]

EAST OXFORD’s worst landlords want to shoe-horn more tenants into less and less space. The latest wheeze? Converting single rooms into self-contained flats. In goes a cooking range, shower, and loo. Over these goes a bed loft. St Clements City Councillor Graham Jones spotted a planning application to do this in a house on Cowley […]

Liberal Democrat campaigner for St Clement’s Ward, Graham Jones, has strongly backed the call by Dr Steve Goddard, Parliamentary spokesperson for Oxford East, and the Lib-Dem Opposition on the City Council, to bring in compulsory licensing for landlords in the City without delay.