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1 week ago | 
banburyfm.com | Esmé Kenney |Andy Green
by Esme Kenney, Local Democracy ReporterThe Oxfordshire County councillors with the best and worst meeting attendance across the full council term have been revealed. The data shows the meetings that councillors were expected to attend between May 18 2021 when the first meeting of the current council term was held, and April 1 2025 when the final full council meeting of the term took place.
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2 weeks ago | 
banburyfm.com | Esmé Kenney |Andy Green
by Esme Kenney, Local Democracy ReporterOxfordshire County Council spent more than £127,000 on social media advertising in the space of a year, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has shown. The county council has Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, Nextdoor and YouTube accounts, which are monitored Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm. The FOI response states the county council spent £127,320.24 on digital marketing on social media platforms between March 2024 and March 2025.
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1 month ago | 
banburyfm.com | Esmé Kenney |Andy Green
by Esme Kenney, Local Democracy ReporterPeople living in Oxfordshire have one of the highest council tax bills in England according to new figures. Oxfordshire County Council ranked first in the rankings of county-based local authorities with the highest average Band D council tax, standing at £1,911.40 per year for 2025/26.
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1 month ago | 
banburyfm.com | Esmé Kenney |Andy Green
by Esme Kenney, Local Democracy ReporterOxfordshire County Council’s headquarters is set to become a “high quality” hotel as part of plans to revamp the West End of Oxford and boost the local economy. County Hall in Oxford city centre will be sold as the council prepares to move to its new home at Speedwell House in spring 2027. Details of how much the council will gain from the sale as well as the identity of the buyer remain confidential, as final talks with the buyer are ongoing.
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2 months ago | 
bbc.com | Esmé Kenney
Oxford City Council is fifth in the ranking of UK councils with the longest waiting times.
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2 months ago | 
banburyfm.com | Esmé Kenney |Andy Green
by Esme Kenney, Local Democracy ReporterA large pool of funding is being invested to address issues with potholes and drainage on roads across the county. Motorists in Oxfordshire will be glad to hear the county council announced nearly £40m will be spent on potholes, improving drainage and surface dressing after the authority’s budget for 2025/26 was passed.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
oxfordmail.co.uk | Esmé Kenney
Plans to convert a Grade II* listed former stable building near Chipping Norton into a new home have been submitted. The building has been “suffering from a lack of maintenance” according to planning documents and has been used for storage since it stopped being used as a stable. Omar Afridi, who owns the building as well as the house adjoined to it, made the application for Cedar Lodge in Shipton-under-Wychwood, which was validated by West Oxfordshire District Council on Wednesday, January 15.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
oxfordmail.co.uk | Esmé Kenney
3 1/1 Opponents desperately trying to prevent a bridge being built in a city nature park are urging funding is spent elsewhere "before time runs out" as a protest is planned for County Hall. Friends of Grandpont Nature Park, which has a longstanding campaign against the Oxpens River Bridge, is accusing local authorities of trying to "fool" the government's housing authority.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
msn.com | Esmé Kenney
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
oxfordmail.co.uk | Esmé Kenney
Controversial plans to convert two homes in Oxford into Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) will be decided next week. The application was made by Capital Co-Living and calls for a change of use for two homes in Lime Road in North Hinksey. One of the homes is for four people and has an upstairs study. Under the plans it will become a nine-bed HMO, while the other home, a three-bedroom home, would become a seven-bed HMO.
