People living on an Oxford estate have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to secure brand new community facilities, according to local councillors.

Plans are being drawn up for the multi-million-pound redevelopment of the Wood Farm Primary School site, in Titup Hall Drive.

But, as well as brand new school buildings, the scheme could include health facilities and new youth and community centres.

Last month, members of Oxford City Council's north east area committee decided to support plans to press ahead with a £40,000 study to establish just what could be included on the site.

Churchill ward city councillor Joe McManners said: "There is good potential to have a really good facility - one of the best in Oxford.

"I think it's a great opportunity for Wood Farm."

Millions of pounds could be spent sprucing up the site and offering the estate a new focal point to replace crumbling facilities.

The present community centre is in the school's old library, which many feel is not big enough, while the estate's youth club, only opened a year ago, is in a prefabricated building.

Liz Brighouse, Oxfordshire county councillor for Barton and Churchill, said: "I've been campaigning for years to have a new school.

"It was built in the 1950s with a life expectancy of 50 years and it has gone past that.

"It's been highly successful, but it just does not have the facilities that are needed for the children in the 21st century.

"This is an amazing opportunity to look at the needs of the whole community as well as the needs of the school.

"It's a very, very exciting time - a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to really put into Wood Farm the sorts of facilities that Wood Farm has desperately needed for a long time."

Ray Clare, treasurer of Wood Farm Community Association, said it was crucial a new community centre was part of the plans.

The 62-year-old, from Nuffield Road, said: "The current one is past its best and we need something twice the size. It's just not big enough. It sounds like a good idea if it all fits on to the site."

Oxfordshire County Council is hoping to use funding from the Government's Primary Capital Programme - extra funding announ- ced by the Government to improve primary schools - to modernise Wood Farm Primary School - but said its plans were still at a very early stage.

Although a spokesman said it was too early to say how much the scheme could cost, the county council budgeted £2.7m for a similar project in June 2006.

Local NHS trust spokesman Jo Wilkes said the trust had contributed £5,000 towards the study, but that no decision had been taken about health facilities.

The area committee heard the project was due to be completed by 2010, but a county council spokesman said it was too early to speculate on a possible timetable.

No one at the primary school was available for comment.