AN attempt to stop a parking free-for-all at Port Meadow's car park, a dam at Godstow Bridge and the preparations for a huge new housing and science park north of the city are some of the building projects in Oxford this week.
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PARKING chaos at a site north of Port Meadow could soon be prevented by a repaving.
The car park to the north of the meadow is set to undergo resurfacing works, if Oxford City Council's own contracting company is given planning permission for the works.
The Godstow Road car park at the meadow has reportedly 'degraded' according to a report from ODS, and needs resurfacing.
According to the report, the car park is needed because it 'eases local parking pressure by making available space for visitors to the area to park, with easy access to the common land and river. '
But it is currently unmarked, and ODS wants to create set spaces to fit in as many cars as possible.
Planning reference: 21/00763/CT3
PREPARATIONS for replacing a dam on the Thames at Godstow Bridge have been approved.
The Environment Agency has been granted a special kind of permission for its planned works at Godstow Weir, just south of the historic grade-II listed bridge.
The EA will be able to carry out the works swiftly without going through a full planning process because it the works are classed as lawful development.
A city council planning committee had called in the agency's other application for the works, for Listed Building Consent, because of worries about the nearby historic bridge and Godstow Abbey.
The West Area Planning Committee agreed the works could go ahead when it met on April 13.
Planning reference: 21/00436/CPU
Oxford North aerial looking towards Oxford City Centre and Headington Global Health and Life Sciences District. Picture: TWO
DRAINAGE works for Oxford North, the huge new housing and office space development north of the city, are being considered.
The temporary works will include ditches and ponds being dug to the north of the site to prevent flooding from halting building works.
In a planning statement, Savills describes how the works would 'blend' with other natural bodies of water nearby.
However, nearby residents are objecting to the works and to the overall scheme.
Susan Gutteridge wrote to the council to object, saying: "This ill-considered scheme is going to inflict unbelievable damage upon the surrounding area not least because the flooding is going to be off the scale if they concrete over this land and for what? Offices that we simply do not need."
Planning reference: 21/01053/RES
New offices could be housed above Taylors Sandwiches on St Giles. Picture: Google Maps
TWO empty floors above a sandwich shop on St Giles could be converted into offices.
The empty rooms above Taylors Sandwiches could become office space if an application by a Mr Michael Beaumont of London is successful.
The rooms, currently designated for educational, but the building's owner wants them to have 'maximum flexibility' for use in the future.
They were once used for office space in the past, and the application asks for them to 'revert' to this use.
The sandwich shop will remain unchanged.
Planning reference: 21/01117/FUL
EXETER College's historic library on Turl Street has been granted permission for refurbishment.
Roofs, floors, windows and a mezzanine area in the grade-II listed building will all be refurbished.
Planning chief Adrian Arnold said the changes 'would accord with the special character, setting, features of special architectural or historic interest of the listed building'.
Planning reference: 21/00355/LBC
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