OUR latest round-up of plans submitted to Oxford City Council includes a revamp of a sad-looking meeting place for rowers and the switch-up of some officers which are hidden on a row of family houses into a school for around 30 foreign students.
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- PLANNING REFERENCE: 19/00410/FUL
WHERE: The Falcon Rowing and Canoe Club, on Meadow Lane
The Falcon Rowing and Canoeing Club. Pic from Google Maps
IN BRIEF: The club’s building is run-down so members want to knock it down and rebuild a ‘super’ clubhouse which they can use to socialise, store all their boats, get changed and work out.
The team have decided to fork-out for the clubhouse, to commemorate 150 years since the club first swung open its doors.
- PLANNING REFERENCE: 19/00247/FUL
WHERE: Hurst Street in East Oxford
Hurst Street. Pic from Google Maps
IN BRIEF: Some old officers hidden behind some family homes might become a school for around 30 foreign students, if the plans are approved.
Planners behind the new language school, which will be run by City College Oxford, have asked the council to change the use of the building legally from some offices to a place where people can study.
- PLANNING REFERENCE: 19/00432/FUL
WHERE: Worcester College on Worcester Street
IN BRIEF: The same Oxford University college Emma Watson went to wants to build two new netted practice lanes for student cricketers on its field.
If the plans go-ahead the new lanes will replace the old ones, which block off the corner of the field. They’ll be lined with fake grass, and black mesh netting will be hung over the new steel frame.
See the list of last week's planning applications which were submitted to Oxford City Council
- PLANNING REFERENCE: 19/00409/FUL
WHERE: Winchester Road
The garden backs on to The Gardeners Arms. Pic Google Maps.
IN BRIEF: A FAMILY want to build a workshop in their back garden for father and son building projects and fun science experiments.
The new build will have a skylight, and a slanted slate roof.
Old Marston Parish Council have weighed in on plans for a row of nine new homes
- PLANNING REFERENCE: 19/00395/FUL
WHERE: Land between 29 and 32 Temple Street in Oxford
The empty land on Temple Street, which planners say is used as an 'informal' car park. Pic google maps
IN BRIEF: Planners want to revamp a car park into three houses.
The mix of one-bed and two-bed maisonettes will be split over two storeys and will slot into the street full of family homes.
Remember when Oxford City Council set sheds on fire?
- PLANNING REFERENCE: 19/00366/CT3
WHERE: Furlong Close in Blackbird Leys
The grass verges will be preserved if Oxford City Council can make some official car parking spaces. Pic on Google Maps.
IN BRIEF: Oxford City Council want to revamp some land to make 27 new car parking spaces for residents who live in the houses and flats on the cul-de-sac off Sandy Lane.
They wrote in their plans online that there is ‘a great deal’ of informal parking – cars parking on the grass and mounting the pavements, which is ruining the land.
Oxford's most expensive home? The £10m mansion hidden on Woodstock Road
- PLANNING REFERNECE: 18/03184/FUL
WHERE: Units 1 to 3 Golden Cross, the passage way leading to the Covered Market off Cornmarket Street.
The Golden Cross cafe. Pic by Ed Nix
IN BRIEF: The old Golden Cross Café, formerly Café Puccino’s, could be revamped into some non-residential studios, if Oxford City Council give developers the go-ahead.
The Grade I listed building needs special consent because they want to do some redevelopment work like adding a toilet and kitchen, and permanently closing a door joining the units together.
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