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intouchOXFORD HALF MARATHON This event was a great success but also a significant disruption to many of us. Do you think that a similar event should be allowed in future years? If it is allowed, how should the practical arrangements be changed? Could the period of complete closure be reduced? Penny Lenon would like to hear your views on this or other matters affecting the Ward. Please e-mail penelope@ouroxford.org or complete our feedback form overleaf.

OXFORD’S LABOUR COUNCIL FAILS TO TACKLE HOUSING CRISIS■ Oxford has the unenviable title of least affordable place to live in Britain: the average cost of a house in the city now stands at over 16 times the average worker’s income, while rents rise ever higher.

If teachers, hospital staff and emergency workers cannot afford to live here, the outlook for our essential services becomes grim. The Oxford University Hospital Trust is reportedly already spending over £100,000 every day on temporary staff – a plainly unsustainable figure.

Labour councillors enjoy bemoaning this situation but have spectacularly failed to do anything about it.

In 2013/14, not a single affordable house was built in the city, while over 500 were built in Conservative-run parts of the county.

The Labour council has also resisted calls to revise their Local Plan for the city to allow more affordable homes to be built where they are so badly needed. By refusing to include accommodation for key workers within the affordable homes quota imposed on new developments, they have ensured such schemes are unviable and prevented their going ahead. A more realistic approach would benefit all residents.

PENELOPE LENON:Standing up for St Margaret’s

■ Penelope Lenon lives in the city and is actively involved in the community. An adviser at Citizens Advice with over 15 years’ experience, she is also a school governor, trustee of a local charity for people with hearing difficulties, secretary to her neighbourhood residents’ association and has provided reading support in a primary school in New Marston.

With a particular interest in planning matters, Penelope is determined to hold the Labour City Council to account where the Lib Dems and Greens have failed.

She says “Everywhere else in Oxfordshire, Conservative councils are providing better services at lower cost to Council Tax payers. Why should our beautiful and historic city endure second-rate government?”

LOCAL ISSUES, LOCAL ACTION, LOCAL CONSERVATIVES

■ Thanks to the support of local people Nicola Blackwood increased her majority

at the general election by more than 9,400 votes! Residents have recognised the hard

work and dedication that Nicola has shown in serving our community since first being

elected in 2010.

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Saving you money Why should some Oxford residents pay up to £399 more in Council Tax than in some other parts of Oxfordshire?Tackling Oxford’s housing crisisLabour have let down the most vulnerable and have failed to deliver the affordable housing the Oxford so desperately needs.Supporting neighbourhood planningPutting local residents in control on deciding where and how developments should take place.Holding Labour to account in OxfordResidents have been let down by both Greens and the Lib Dems who have failed to hold Labour to account in Oxford.Supporting our local economyOxford businesses - large and small - need support from the City Council not more costs and obstacles imposed by Labour.

REDUCING CRIME AND REDUCING COSTSThames Valley Police & Crime Commissioner, Anthony Stansfeld, judged the most efficient in the country.

Not only has crime fallen in Oxford City since Anthony Stansfeld was first elected as Conservative Police & Crime Commissioner, but it has now emerged that he runs the most efficient service in the country.

According to figures released by the Tax Payers Alliance earlier this year the cost of running the Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner (OPCC) is £711,325 lower than the former Police

Authority which it replaced.

Anthony Stansfeld said: “I am pleased that my office has saved the taxpayer nearly three quarters of a million pounds compared to the Police Authority office it replaced.

“I have a small, well run and efficient office that does the job intended at a lower cost than any other Office of the PCC.”

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