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Oxon infrastructure planning ‘suffering a democratic deficit’

Andrew Forster
20 December 2019
 

Transport and spatial planning in Oxfordshire is being shaped by unelected bodies, creating a democratic deficit in decision-making, a group of former local government officers and academics has said. 

Poets (Planning Oxfordshire’s Environment and Transport Sustainably) identifies six unelected bodies with a major influence on the county’s planning:

The National Infrastructure Commission, which is promoting the Oxford to Cambridge Arc as an area for development

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