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Oxford City Council has approved its budget for 2021/22
OXFORD residents will on average pay an extra £6.25 a year in council tax in the short term, as the council continues to plug a £29m hole left by Covid. Oxford City Council approved its budget last night (February 17), which included the tax hike which will help to pay for a £23.6m programme of works over the next year. As the budget was signed off by the Labour-led council, its deputy leader said the budget would helped to ‘rebuild Oxford’ after the pandemic. The average household in a Band D home in Oxford will now pay £6.25 extra in the year from April in tax for city council services, amounting to a total of £313.92.
MORE than 2,500 factory-made low carbon houses could be pumped out in Oxford in the near future. The new homes could be modular, meaning they would be made of pre-assembled pieces a bit like giant LEGO, and must also help to reduce the carbon emissions caused by buildings in the city. Oxford City Council’s own housing company Oxford City Housing Ltd (OCHL) is looking for contractors interested in helping it to deliver the homes across Oxfordshire in the next 10 years. To prepare the way for the new houses, the company has issued a prior information notice inviting developers to a ‘meet the buyer’ event, due to take place today (Tuesday, December 15).