Healthier Communities

ELECTED GREEN COUNCILLORS ARE:

  • Supporting efforts to ‘level up’ health across the City by tackling the root causes: poverty, poor education, housing and pollution
  • Working with health partners and the County to increase access to affordable health & social care, improving support for carers
  • Protecting and enhancing Oxford’s open spaces, recognising their ecological value as well as their contribution to well-being
  • Continuing to update and extend playgrounds, play equipment and recreational facilities for younger citizens
  • Improving facilities so everyone has good access, including marginalised groups, whatever their level of mobility
  • Adopting the ‘Healthy Streets’ approach to urban design (www.healthystreets.org.uk)
  • Creating attractive public spaces by adding fountains, benches, green spaces and more trees
  • Reclaiming road space for community uses – street markets, outdoor café seating and so on
  • Working with the voluntary sector, develop a Food Strategy to address the issues of food inequality, sustainability & health
  • Encouraging local production of healthy food through, for example, allotments & community orchards to promote good nutrition
  • Supporting efforts to introduce ‘social prescribing’

My Policies

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Quality Homes

Oxford has the least affordable housing in the UK. We believe that access to affordable, secure and decent housing is a human right, not a privilege. Nobody should be left homeless or have insecure accommodation.

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Better Connectivity

Both City and County Councils have a key role to play in delivering sustainable transport solutions; including using the planning system to reduce the need to travel. In the past, there have been many poorly designed schemes implemented without proper consultation.

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Healthier Communities

When it comes to health, Oxfordshire is a two-tier County. Most enjoy above average wellbeing but Oxford also includes six wards which are amongst the most deprived in England. In these areas, death from preventable causes, self-harm and obesity are above average.

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Zero Carbon

Under pressure from the Greens, the Council has recently committed to go ‘net zero’ by 2030 and set itself the target of making the City ‘net zero’ target by 2040. Though worthy, these commitments exclude many sources of carbon emissions and are largely unfunded.

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Protecting Nature

All species on Planet Earth are the life support for all others. Greens have long warned of the threat posed by the loss of species – a threat parallel with climate change. We need to do more locally to protect our flora and fauna.

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Prosperous Economy

COVID-19 turned the world upside down, rapidly followed by a cost of living crisis. These events have exposed the major weaknesses in our economic system and the deep-seated inequalities in our City. Invariably, it is the most vulnerable whom have suffered the most.

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