LUTHER Court, off Thames Street, Oxford, may not exactly be Versailles, but it seems to be a perfectly habitable home to dozens of people.
Many of these are rather vulnerable – a minute detail omitted in your article of August 8 – and who, in some cases, will therefore scarcely be looking forward to the upheaval of being forcibly removed, with or without the aid of “a dedicated tenant liaison officer who is working with the existing residents of Luther Court to establish their housing needs and find alternative suitable accommodation while the building work takes place”.
What about afterwards, incidentally?
Those with any questions are encouraged to get in touch but this may be more easily said than done in some instances, I respectfully add.
Yet the overriding concern, judging by your item, seems to involve designing the “affordable housing and flats for overseas students”, to be constructed in its place, in such a way that inconvenience from the O’Hanlon House night shelter and nearby medical centre is kept to a minimum.
I do not recall, however, excessive preoccupation with how such “antisocial behaviour” – much of it is very social – has affected the tenants of the doomed dwellings (two or three of whom have been friends of mine over the years) with their adjacent “internal” access rather than the more isolated main road entrances planned for the members of Bellerby’s College, whatever and wherever that is.
Anyway, enough of me; let us hear the views of some Luther Courtiers.
DAVID DIMENT
Riverside Court
Oxford
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