THE city council's former leader and a leading environmental campaigner will debate whether building should be allowed on Oxford's Green Belt.

Bob Price, who resigned as the council's leader in January 2018 after a decade in the role, and Michael Tyce, a trustee of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, will speak at an Oxford Civic Society event on April 11.

The event will be the first of three to celebrate the society's 50th anniversary.

It will be held in Oxford Town Hall's Assembly Rooms from 7.30pm. Doors will open at 7pm.

Tickets cost £7 and will be required in advance. There will be no entry on the door. For the Eventbrite page for tickets, visit the civic society's website, oxcivicsoc.org.uk/programme

The second event, on pollution in Oxford, will be held on May 16, again at the Town Hall. Lib Dem councillor Paul Harris and Friends of the Earth's Chris Church will speak at that.

The third will discuss growth and the Oxford-Cambridge expressway. County council leader Ian Hudspeth and academic Danny Dorling will debate that issue on June 17, again at Oxford Town Hall.

Anyone with special mobility or other needs is asked to contact the society ahead of the event so they can be accommodated.