Oh no he isn't.

Also the Love Coffee van is often parked nearby.

So locally Your Coop, with some of their stores branded "Your Coop Food" and some "The Co-operative Food", has become Our Coop, but the food stores that use the Coop branding remain part of The Co-operative Group (coop.co.uk) and they all cooperate under Co-operatives UK (uk.coop) - is that right?

I'd ask my own councillor to ask cabinet to restrict taxis, but since he's a taxi driver himself, that doesn't seem likely to happen. (Earlier post, now deleted, said PHV driver, but I double checked and he's a Hackney Carriage driver)

Given the material increase in the number of PSVs in the city, I am very keen to know when this review will take place and what form it will have. I shall write to the cabinet member concerned, but wonder if any county councillor would be willing to ask the question formally.

At the time, the cabinet member commented that when traffic filters came into use "the situation would change and be reviewed." The later decision to allow a similar bypass route through East Oxford explicitly says the exemptions will be reviewed prior to or during the trial of the traffic filters.

Five years ago, the Low Traffic Neighbourhood made it safe for my daughter to cycle unaccompanied to primary school and after-school activities. Now, at those times, a stream of taxis uses the bypass route, and that opportunity is no longer available to others who might follow her example.

In June 2023, the County Council decided to replace some physical Low Traffic Neighbourhood filters with ANPR enforcement and, without prior consultation, allowed taxis to use them, creating an east–west route that bypasses the classified road network.

And the consequence to this is of course that those parking in the public domain without paying rent are in fact stealing land from the public and the public have every right to want their land back

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The benefit to the top 10% comes from rising land values under enforced scarcity. If supply is allowed, land rents fall even while builders earn returns, and higher density makes local shops and services viable too, like food prices fell after Corn Law repeal even though farming continued.

What proportion of local authorities will use these powers, do you expect?

Hope Macaulay, my daughter (15) tells me.

Planning currently enforces housing scarcity. Change would lower costs of one of the biggest expenses for households while reducing the scarcity rents that mainly accrue to the top 10%. I think it's a good analogy to Corn Law repeal.