Even when local town councils, district councils, county councils and local people all oppose some speculator's plan to build houses in an inappropriate area, the Planning Inspectorate seems to be increasingly biased in favour of the speculator when the proposal goes to appeal.....no doubt there's some government pressure behind that
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Yet house prices are going up at an unsustainable rate, the mortgage mafia and estate agents are slavering over the associated increase in commission - when the new line to London opened last year, the number of London residents looking for houses near Kidlington increased dramatically. How is that of any benefit to local residents?
Oxford cannot find enough space to meet housing supply set by the government, or so they allege, so there is now increasing pressure on the 'green belt' - and local towns and villages are becoming Oxford overspill areas. But without any investment in road or rail infrastructure...
