There's so many reasons, not just the need for housing but OUFC's vital roll in the community, jobs, plus the triangle location next to parkway station, to list just a few. There can only be one outcome, the stadium must go ahead.
That's the kind of logic the opposition really do not understand
Yep, the Kassam Stadium car oark has already been earmarked for residential development:
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And Kassam has started the process of redeveloping other parts of the stadium complex:
But we don't have to move apparently
To be honest, without the stadium there the Ozone park would be largely redundant since it is so out of the way. There's far more to do in Oxford centre now since the Westgate has been developed. The only unique thing there is the bowling alley. How busy is that on non-match days anyway?
The Bowling Alley is fairly busy. Most of the food outlets in the Ozone are closed now and cinema attendance is on its a**e, so you can't predict how that industry is going. Like my own Videogame industry, we're f**ked because of the pandemic. It changed so many people's behavior its caused chaos.. over 12,000 videogames jobs have gone in the UK in the last 6 months. its brutal...but thats another story.
I thought I heard the ice rink had been brought by someone did I hear that wrong
No, the council have moved the operator from "Fusion" a company set up to sieve off public money by pretending to run leisure facilities when actually making a ton of cash for two fellas who live on Sandbanks in Poole. To Serco, a company set up to ......oh dear.
Rent for outlets in Oxford city centre are on a par with London's West end ( Oxford street and surrounding areas) I read somewhere
Rent for retail outlets in Oxford city centre are on a par with London's West end ( Oxford street and surrounding areas) I read somewhere. Basically its a policy that has , more so in the past 20 years, that has priced most independent retail outlets , interesting and semi unique ones especially out of the city centre. The rise in popularity of internet shopping has added to to disappearance of independent retail outlets too. There are exceptions ( albeit very few) but in the main its chain owned outlets who can afford the eywewatering rent in Oxford city centre
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The eateries are opening because there's a market for them, though not with me. The Covered Market is doing really well now with the new cafes and stalls.
Yes shocking
I don't see many locals using the covered market, from the estates, just day trippers & tourist's. There was a time you could walk in any pub in Town. The Westgate, ale house, roebuck, dolly, crown, wheatsheaf, red lion, chequers & it would be full of locals. Not no more just outsiders eating. alas some of those pubs are no more. There's nothing in town ,trust me...
I don't know who all the people are, I imagine some are locals. Young people are more into coffee and posh snacks than drinking pints of beer, it seems.
