Liberal Democrat ministers have provided £1 million to improve cycling safety in Oxford. But are the ruling Tories at County Hall spending it in the right way? Your ward councillor Graham Jones, who speaks for the City Council LibDems on Cleaner, Greener Oxford issues, wants to hear your views. Instead of funding a number of […]

People are saying they’re fed up about the suspension of our Neighbourhood Action Group. This crime-busting forum brings residents, traders, and students alongside police to swap data and ideas. Small multi-agency teams then get together to tackle specific problems – such as noise in a particular location. Like NAGs elsewhere, it hasn’t met for the best part […]

One hundred and twenty nations and peoples are represented in Oxford’s schools. Oxford is truly a world city. To celebrate and help young people meet each other through sport, city councillor Graham Jones has invested discretionary funding into ‘scoping’ an Oxford World Cup soccer competition in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. […]

Do you know of historic buildings in need of protection? An official list is being drawn up and your views may be crucial. Plans to cover the iconic Arts and Crafts building, the old Elm Tree pub on Cowley Road with garish murals, ugly signboards, and neon were ditched after Graham protested. He wasn’t so […]

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 […]

People are saying how pleased they are with the new Controlled Parking Zone from Manzil Way to Hill Top Road and streets between. Lib Dem campaigner Graham Jones backed the scheme before his election in 2010 and was involved in the planning as a ward councillor. Now the focus has turned to the need to […]

Nearly a third of Oxford’s population, 48,000 people and many in East Oxford, were born overseas. The most cost-effective way of optimising this huge skills resource is to make it easy for new arrivals to learn English. Lots of newcomers want to do just that – but find it hard to sign up for a […]

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 […]

   The Oxford Mail’s report Oxfordshire residents use 30m plastic bags a year, and most go to the landfill, costing council tax payers a hefty bill and creating carbon emissions equivalent to the annual pollution from about 160 cars. Graham got unanimous backing from his fellow city councillors when he asked for Oxford’s two MPs […]