THE city's biggest nightclub has given a preview of what it will look like - and smell like - following a £500,000 refurbishment.

Park End, in Park End Street, will be relaunched as a Lava Ignite club on Friday, once building work has finished.

The opening weekend will include a VIP Champagne reception and revellers will be greeted by stilt walkers, professional club dancers and costumed entertainers.

And it will not just be a visual make-over - when the new club reopens it will have special 'scented dancefloors' to combat any unwanted odours following the smoking ban.

The club has been known as the Park End for 15 years and is one of Oxford's oldest nightclubs.

And manager Ken Getgood said he hoped the new look venue would attract even more clubbers.

He said: "It's starting to take shape. At night-time it's looking great, but during the day it still looks like a building, site because it's a rolling refurbishment."

The club's capacity will remain the same at 1,200, and the venue has remained open with a reduced capacity throughout the work.

Mr Getgood said: "The main thing the refurbishment offers is another big room.

"The old club was built around one room. There will still be five rooms in total, but now two of them will be big."

He added: "It will bring a new experience to the customers. It will appeal to more people, because of the variations in the music we can play on one night."

Work will include new flooring and a rebranded exterior.

There will also be new VIP booths available to hire.

The club will be open on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Student nights will be on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights will feature 80s, 90s, disco, pop and indie, dance anthems, funky house, commercial R&B, hip hop classics and urban.