Oxfordshire councils have terminated proposals for an ambitious joint housing plan, in a move that appears to put an end to a 2017 deal with the government to build 100,000 homes in the county by 2031.

Five Oxfordshire authorities had been working together on a joint spatial strategy to 2050, on which they had consulted on options as recently as last summer, which had been supposed to provide the policy backbone behind the £215m Oxfordshire Housing and Growth Deal signed five years ago.

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