An area of East Oxford is set to clear its streets - so members of the community can sit down for a meal together.

Up to 150 people in the Divinity Road area are set to descend on Warneford Road for its annual meal in the street tomorrow.

It is one of about six events organised each year by the Divinity Road Area Residents' Association aimed at bringing the community together - and clearing the roads of traffic.

Resident Andy Roscoe, who is on the organising committee, said: "The street meal is the main event we do in the middle of the summer.

"We shut off one or two of the roads and organise it so we get tables and chairs and some music."

The residents also put a large children's swimming pool in the road.

Mr Roscoe said; "We all bring some food and share it and there are barbecues as well.

"Anywhere between 80 and 150 people come, mostly families with children under 10.

"It is mainly a excuse to shut the street off and, for six or seven hours, take the streets back so children can play in the road."

The street, which links Divinity and Southfield roads, is closed from 5pm until midnight and the owners of dozens of cars which usually park there and in part of adjoining Bartlemas Road are asked to move them in the run up to the event.

The meal, an annual event since the mid-1990s, is open to everyone living between Cowley Road and Hill Top Road, and between Stone Street and Southfield Road.