A former Lord Mayor, a headteacher and a champion of Pakistani immigrants are among candidates who may be immortalised on an Oxford estate.

Oxford City Council has drawn up a shortlist of five people known for their community work who may have new roads named after them in Rose Hill.

On Monday,the council south east area committee will decide if Sher Afzal Khan, Norman Brown, Alderman Percy Bromley, Constance Norman or Stephen Field will become permanent fixtures on the estate.

Only three of the five will be successful as the council seeks to give the new streets a historic feel when they are created as part of the estate's regeneration.

Today, residents urged the councillors to consider local opinions - and the votes of Oxford Mail readers - before making a decision.

From today, visitors to oxfordmail.co.uk will be able to vote for which of the five names they would like to see in Rose Hill.

The results will be made available to the committee before the councillors make a final decision.

Jennifer Marshall, from Nowell Road, said: "I think the vote is a good idea. People up here know the history of the estate - we should be the ones that choose.

"To them it is just a name whereas to us it will be representing a person who had an impact on our lives."

Ms Marshall said she wanted one of the roads named after Constance Norman, her former headmistress at Rose Hill First School, in The Oval.

She said: "She was like everybody's granny. She was so easy going - you could sit on her lap and talk to her. She would always know if there was anything wrong.

"It is a pity there are not more people like her here now because we would not have so many delinquents."

The three new roads are being created as part of a massive overhaul of the estate, which will see 250 new houses built over the next four years.

Space for the roads has been created by the demolition of Orlit houses, originally erected as a temporary solution to housing shortages, but which have now outlived their intended life- span.

The roads will sit between Nowell Road and Desborough Crescent and off of Thames View Road and Rivermead Road.

SHER AFZAL KHAN

Mr Khan arrived in Oxford from Pakistan in 1962 and later launched the Pakistan Welfare Association to help the local immigrant population.

NORMAN BROWN Editor of the Rose Hill roundabout newsletter for 29 years and founded the Orlits Tenants' Association.

ALDERMAN PERCY BROMLEY

Former Lord Mayor of Oxford in 1969/70 who represented the estate as a city councillor from 1952.

CONSTANCE NORMAN

Headmistress of Rose Hill First School for 12 years and former vice chairman of Age Concern Oxford.

STEPHEN FIELD

A block of retirement flats in Rivermead Road which were demolished ahead of the redevelopment were named after Mr Field. He is believed to have been a charitable man who lived in the area in the 18th century.