The authorities is betting huge with a £500m funding in Oxford and Cambridge. But, argues Steve Brett, a scarcity of inexpensive and sustainable housing throughout the area would halt progress earlier than it even begins
The authorities’s current £500m funding into the Oxford-Cambridge Arc has rightly been welcomed as a major enhance to one of the UK’s most vital areas for innovation. It’s encouraging to see that degree of funding backed and valued as one of Labour’s priorities.
The Oxford-Cambridge Corridor is set to enhance improvement with inexpensive properties, infrastructure and enterprise growth. This will embody initiatives to join the two cities additional, bringing progress to the areas, creating our very personal ‘European Silicon Valley’. However, these initiatives and folks behind them want properties.