General New Stadium Plans - Stratfield Brake

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Essexyellows said:
Parking concerns are relatively easy to solve..... anywhere South of the A4260/Bicester Road junction make it a CPZ same as Blackbird Leys. 🤷‍♀️
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Yeah, works well there and Stratfield Brake has the benefits of the park and rides and train station which Grenoble Road doesn't benefit on.

Cllr Middleton suggested reopening the Cowley Branch line to serve the Kassam, I'd imagine that would cost more public funds than the new stadium would.
 
Joey's Left Boot said:
Yeah, works well there and Stratfield Brake has the benefits of the park and rides and train station which Grenoble Road doesn't benefit on.

Cllr Middleton suggested reopening the Cowley Branch line to serve the Kassam, I'd imagine that would cost more public funds than the new stadium would.
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I think that line will be reopened, but as others have said it's unlikely to have enough capacity to serve a football ground.
 
Joey's Left Boot said:
Yeah, works well there and Stratfield Brake has the benefits of the park and rides and train station which Grenoble Road doesn't benefit on.

Cllr Middleton suggested reopening the Cowley Branch line to serve the Kassam, I'd imagine that would cost more public funds than the new stadium would.
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It's not the public funds that is the really issue.
The train station near to Stratford Break is a main line.
Trains go from London, Wycombe, Oxford Station (8 minutes), Didcot ( 1 change circa 45 minutes) and a host if different places.
There may be the Cowley line to the science park, but whether i t will run trains just alternate Saturdays just for football fans? Even if it did the service would be limited.
Cllr Middleton really hasn't looked at this in any detail.
 
Foley said:
It's not the public funds that is the really issue.
The train station near to Stratford Break is a main line.
Trains go from London, Wycombe, Oxford Station (8 minutes), Didcot ( 1 change circa 45 minutes) and a host if different places.
There may be the Cowley line to the science park, but whether i t will run trains just alternate Saturdays just for football fans? Even if it did the service would be limited.
Cllr Middleton really hasn't looked at this in any detail.
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When it's reopened it will have a train every 20 or 30 minutes I expect, but only to Oxford, and only short trains that would be swamped by a football crowd.
 
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theWizard said:
We (forum members) need to move away from talking about (all) Kidlington Residents do not want the stadium. It simply is not true.

There are a some residents that do not want it. Concerns over parking is their number one concern.

...but there are also so many residents that are happy and even excited to be the new home of our county team.


It is my opinion that the majority of Kidlington residents are currently kind of natural to the move (yes, they love sport and yes they will go to matches but they have parking concerns). Kidlington has many Kassam exiles and I believe that the Kidlington fan base will see a mini explosion once the move is complete.
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Not certain I would describe anyone who lives in Kidlington as an exile, when I lived in Oxford i pretty much just considered it another part of Oxford. You can draw lines on maps, have different councils etc but it’s people that decide geography really, and most sane people can tell you if something is in the same area.

We have already moved from one area of Oxford to another, this is just the same as that (Kassam and start field brake are about the same distance from the spiritual home of the Manor as well).
 
holdsteady said:
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Not certain I would describe anyone who lives in Kidlington as an exile, when I lived in Oxford i pretty much just considered it another part of Oxford. You can draw lines on maps, have different councils etc but it’s people that decide geography really, and most sane people can tell you if something is in the same area.

We have already moved from one area of Oxford to another, this is just the same as that (Kassam and start field brake are about the same distance from the spiritual home of the Manor as well).
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Don't forget Minchery Farm or greater leys wasn't part of Oxford 25 years ago.
 
It’s good to see that things are moving forward. I’d also say it’s good to see that the club are engaging with the concerns of the local people and the various parish bodies. I absolutely want the development to proceed, but I also want it to be as environmentally sensitive and sustainable as it possibly can be. We have a beautiful opportunity here to achieve not only a proper, lasting home for Oxford United and the other clubs and associations in the area that adds tremendous value to the wider county, but also to be at the forefront of ecological and environmental stadia design and construction. From what I’ve watched and read, that is exactly what our owners are proposing, and I’m really looking forwards to the club, it’s supporters and the wider community working together to fulfil those ambitions.

There are legitimate concerns of course, as well as some less informed ones shall we say. That’s entirely understandable at this stage. I suppose when some people think about the finished article, they essentially imagine a Kassam Stadium plonked on Stratford Brake. That clearly isn’t what the club are proposing, and I believe that once negotiations have progressed further and once some actual designs and site plans are available, the majority of the opposition to the project will be a great deal happier with the finalised proposal.
 
holdsteady said:
It was when we moved, it changed when greater leys was built.
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Yes that's what I meant. We built a ground on land that wasn't in Oxford City's boundary historically so the argument the ground should be within the city boundary isn't a valid one.
 
OX14 said:
Don't forget Minchery Farm or greater leys wasn't part of Oxford 25 years ago.
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.....likewise Abingdon was 'annexed' by Oxfordshire in the early 70s - hence Abingdon Utd and ' Town both ply their trade in Berkshire , not Oxon Leagues
 
Sarge said:
.....likewise Abingdon was 'annexed' by Oxfordshire in the early 70s - hence Abingdon Utd and ' Town both ply their trade in Berkshire , not Oxon Leagues
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Yes Abingdon use to be the county town of Berkshire too. Abingdon use to have its own hospital on Radley Road but anyone under the age of 40 like me would of been born in Oxford. Its history but in todays world we are very close to Oxford in lots of ways, you don't see many Reading shirts here that's for sure.
 
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