JERICHO WHARF NEWS
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Save Jericho Wharf Campaign Newletter No. 3.
Our online petition in favour of Compulsory Purchase by the Oxford City Council of the Jericho Wharf site has now gathered 1,905 signatures – more than the 1,217 votes cast in the Carfax/Jericho ward in the 2024 Oxford City elections! This newsletter is produced in order to keep supporters up to date with the ongoing Campaign. Our first issue in April also explained the need for a Community Boatyard, one of the key facilities specified in the Council’s adopted policies for the site. Our second issue in Junefocused on the importance of a new Community Centre. This issue looks at two other specified facilities: a public space and a new canal crossing. Both are not only much needed, but integral to the success of the site as a whole.
Save Jericho Wharf Campaign Newletter No. 2.
In January 2025, we launched our online petition in favour of a compulsory purchase of the Wharf site which in just a few weeks gathered 1,600+ signatures. We then entered into discussions with the City Council. In April, we launched this newsletter to keep supporters up to date. In this issue we emphasize the importance of a new community centre on the Wharf site.
Newly uncovered documents obtained by the Save Jericho Wharf campaign reveal that Hong Kong-based landowner Cheer Team is attempting to sell the Jericho Wharf site with plans for up to 230 student flats—a move that would allow them to avoid planning obligations for affordable housing, a new community centre, and a boatyard.
Save Jericho Wharf Campaign Newletter No. 1.
In January we launched our on-line petition in favour of a compulsory purchase of the Wharf site which in just a few weeks gathered 1,600+ signatures. In March a packed Phoenix cinema enjoyed a fundraising screening of the Jericho films.
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A packed Phoenix cinema enjoyed two wonderful film evocations of Jericho. But in the subsequent open discussion they angrily condemned shameful behaviour by the landowner and developers of the Jericho Wharf site, and years of inertia and even obstruction by planning officers. It is time for the City to step in and end this dreary cycle of greed and incompetence,
The Jericho Wharf Trust has launched a campaign to Save Jericho Wharf through a compulsory purchase by the City Council
