The council hopes that a minimum of 2,050 affordable homes will be built between the current financial year and 2022/23.

Council-owned Oxford Housing Company Limited (OHCL) will deliver 530 of the proposed homes and is planning to deliver a further 500 affordable homes after 2023.

Oxford City Council also expects private developers to provide more affordable housing in line with the its 50% affordable homes policy for all new housing developments with more than 10 units.

Current and planned developments include Barton Park, Oxpens, Northern Gateway, Blackbird Leys district centre and Littlemore Park, among others.

Over the last four years, the council has spent £17m delivering affordable homes, including social rented, affordable rented and shared ownership properties.

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Mike Rowley, board member for housing at Oxford City Council, said: “It is time government recognises the urgent need for genuinely affordable housing for the salary levels that are typical of middle professionals in cities like Oxford.

“The plans we are unveiling today will help to address that.

“However, radical changes in land acquisition policies are essential, along with the removal of the borrowing cap on local authorities.

“We don’t have enough spare land in the city to build all the homes we need, so a big part of the solution is the cooperation of our neighbouring areas in supporting housebuilding in their areas.

“Of the 30,000 new homes we know Oxford needs over the coming years, 8,000 of those can be built in the city, with the rest in neighbouring areas.”