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  • March 2020 ‘Visions’ published

    Examining the issues in the city centre.

    4 March 2020

    This issue leads with a review of the problems facing the city centre and calls for an effective strategy for how it should develop. Click the image to download. It also has the Spring programme of public talks and members-only walks and visits which you can also see on the Programme page

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  • November ‘Visions’ published

    A bumper climate change issue for OCS@50

    9 November 2019

    The larger-than-usual November edition of ‘Visions’ has been published. In keeping with current concerns it focuses on climate change and related issues. Click the image to download. Visions – articles include What can we do about climate change?; Housing: making it fit for the future; Transport: speeding up the solutions; Climate action at Oxford University…

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  • Changing Oxford

    Fifty years of Oxford Civic Society 1969–2019. A report by historian Liz Woolley

    2 June 2019

    Your search has found this document, which is an unformatted plain text version of a fully illustrated report. To download the complete report as a pdf file, click here.

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  • Sue Stewart

    Sue became a Trustee and joined the Executive Committee in April 2019

    3 April 2019

    Sue Stewart has lived in Oxfordshire for 40 years. She was a councillor on West Oxfordshire District Council for 8 years and member of their planning committee for the whole period. As parish councillor for Charlbury she took the lead in working with Oxford Citizens’ Housing Association to build one of the first rural low…

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  • Chris Church

    Chris became a Trustee and joined the Executive Committee in April 2019

    3 April 2019

    Chris Church was born in Oxford and studied at Oxford Polytechnic (now Brookes) and spent 28 years in London, working in the environmental sector and mostly running a consultancy – Community Environment Associates. He worked with a number of universities on assessing how local communities and councils can be effective in delivering environmental goals and…

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  • Louise Thomas

    Louise became a Trustee and joined the Executive Committee in April 2019

    3 April 2019

    Louise Thomas is an urban designer and architect by training. She runs an independent urban design consultancy (TDRC), and has held senior roles in planning and design companies in the UK. She is also executive director of the Historic Towns & Villages Forum (HTVF), based in Kellogg College, Oxford. Her passion for urban design, development…

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  • Richard Venables – new Vice-President

    Richard agreed to become a Vice-President at the April 2019 AGM

    2 April 2019

    Richard was educated at St Edward’s, Oxford and Exeter University where he gained a geography degree. He commenced his surveying career in 1989 at Gerald Eve in London and in 2002 jointly started VSL and Partners, specialising in commercial property advice. Richard dedicates considerable time and energy to economic and cultural development in Oxfordshire. He…

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  • AGM, Annual Review and March Visions

    Details and papers for the AGM

    1 March 2019

    Annual Review 2018 and AGM We have published our Annual Review 2018, giving a short account of the Society’s work last year and a summary of the annual accounts. This year’s AGM is on Tuesday 2 April at 8pm. The Agenda, Annual Review, Minutes of the 2018 AGM and Examined Accounts for 2018 are all…

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  • November ‘Visions’ published

    with talks, walks and visits programme

    31 October 2018

    The November edition of ‘Visions’ has been published. Click the image to download. Visions – articles include OCS@50! Two cheers for Oxford North? First reactions to the Expressway Transport and the Local Plan Letters It also has the Winter programme.of public talks and members-only walks and visits which you can also see on the Programme…

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  • July ‘Visions’ published

    with talks, walks and visits programme

    25 July 2018

    The July edition of ‘Visions’ has been published. Click the image to download. Visions – articles include Creating consensus on growth; New recruits to our work (Thelma Martin, Anne Gwinnett); An award for Sheila Glazebrook; OxClean goes to Westminster; What we really think about cable cars; The WOW factory!; Our future at stake; Celebrations at…

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