Oxford City Council set to criminalise busking and begging
Proposals for a new City Centre Public Space Protection Order which criminalise non-aggressive begging and non-compliant busking looks set to be agreed by the City Executive Board on 11th June after a last ditch attempt by three of the four City Centre Councillors (all Greens) whose wards were affected by the PSPO failed to convince the Labour majority on the City's Scrutiny Committee (2nd June 2015) to recommend changes to the PSPO.
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