The new development at North Oxford covers 64 hectares. It will provide one million square feet of laboratories and workspaces, 4,500 jobs and 3 public parks. They say:
At the heart of (this) exciting new community is the Neighbourhood Square, a landscaped park creating lush and leafy vistas. With play areas for children to explore, and meadow grasslands for picnicking and games, it it also a place where neighbours can gather and friendships are made.
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Advertised as a “model of sustainable living,” few working people will afford to live there. There’s 4,500 new jobs, but only 170 affordable homes. 280 unaffordable ones. If this site was used for housing, OCC could build 1,237 homes.
In this part of Oxford, Oxford City Council intend to build at least 230 extra homes. But they want to dismantle the only park we’ve got. Families will have to walk to Hinksey Park, over a kilometre away. It’ll be even further for residents of the new development on Redbridge Meadow.
Is it one rule for them and another rule for us?
Save Bertie Park Oxford 