Abingdon Road Travelodge hotel plan rejected (From Oxford Mail)

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  Oflife wrote:
  Unbelievable but not a surprise decision by the most business unfriendly council in the UK. No wonder Oxford is looked upon as a hopeless destination for shopping and business. (Just today, I got into a discussion with the staff at a popular clothing store who all agreed with me.) Speaking as an entrepreneur, with NO business focused hotels on the outer areas of Oxford (the inner ones don't have parking and with the exception of the Randolf, are trashy), this would have been an ideal place for our motorist guests to stay. Further, that eyesore just a few blocks away that is the burned out pub is STILL there! What a contrast between Oxford Council (whose primary objective is flooding the city with PCOs and traffic wardens) and London - a very business friendly city. Hence the latter's streets are NOT populated with rude and sometimes dangerous homeless people. That is what left wing thinking does. It takes a lenient attitude to street crime and poo poos industrious job creating endeavors like this! I sense the normal leftist envy at initiative and positive thinking. No wonder nations like Russia are grey and stuck in a depressed repressive eternity.

  I live in East London and I assure you there is extreme poverty, homelessness, and very anti-social people on the streets.
  
  You haven't seen anything if you think E.Oxford can compare with the deregulated, favela like dystopia that exists within 0.5 miles of the Olympic Park and Canary Wharf.
  
  The free market has failed, you cannot respect or eat ££££, you have all the deregulation and abandonment of public services you could possibly wish for...and still it's not enough?
  
  No-one is going to protect you when the real rain comes, remember that. You will stand + fall as a human, equal, survival of the fittest just like you dreamt of.
  
  BTW Oxford performing very well in terms of employment and business start-ups on national scale - http://www.centrefor
  cities.org/assets/fi
  les/2012/Cities_Outl
  ook_2012.pdf"
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