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New Stadium Project - Key Details
Planning Portal: Planning Application - 24/00539/F
Stadium News Digest Thread: Click Here.
Latest from Club: 10/03/2025: Hotel Partners Announced (Click Here).​
Latest from CDC: Consultation extended.
Kassam License Extension: OUFC Communication
Target Decision Date: Earliest 31st July 2025, subject to change.
Upcoming CDC Meetings: 3rd July, 31st July
Agendas published a week before​

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Middleton is indeed flailing. And his narcissism can't take it. He will get increasingly personal and hurtful and will look to gain control by getting posters like Paul banned. He will play the victim card and make out that the entire fanbase are reverting to type by bullying and threatening him.

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For those who have access to any of these social media platforms, I'd encouraged controlled restraint that doesn't give him an inch to complain about or to play the victim. Not that he doesn't deserve a complete pile-on, but because he will absolutely hate being made to look weak and irrelevant - which is exactly what he is.

He is a snake and it's not just Oxford United fans who are seeing this.

Middleton will definitely play the victim card at some point, just a matter of time.
 
Thinking about what you said, personally I don’t respect either of them.

However you make an interesting point about two men disliked by OUFC supporters, which is pretty accurate.
In this instance Middleton almost certainly took the view my ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’.

Middleton’s either stupid or naive, or uninformed, but most likely all three.

When it comes to Kassam’s attention that these emails are now in the public domain (it probably already has) and that a local Green Party councillor has been trying to use and manipulate Kassam for his own political gain, then I suspect Kassam will not be impressed by the failed businessman’s behaviour. He won’t forget.
The modicum of respect stems from both the recent statement confirming there's no long term home for the club at his stadium, and also the way he dealt with Middleton's attempts at cosying up to him in 2023. Unlike Middleton, Kassam is certainly not stupid, naive or uninformed, he is very on the ball and could see right through Middleton. He chose not to take sides, which was a wise move.

The fact that the Oxford Fail twisted his e-mail into something different, and then FoSB jumped on that particular bandwagon, is not really Kassam's fault. It's actually been quite helpful because it throws that argument into the bin and proves how desperate FoSB and their disciples have become.

Now I'm waiting with bated breath to read their next piece of advice for objecting. Their current advice still begins with the screenshot of the Fail's "They can stay" headline.
 

Well worth reading this and the above and taking action.


Until there is a change to their editorial policy, I will continue to not read or click on anything from the Fail. I still have difficulty in accepting that both @OxVox and @OUSP provide content. Andrew Colley should resign and an apology printed, and posted, for the lies and misinformation propogated by this rag.

Further to this, both organisations have me on their mailing list. Send me the article direct.
 
Until there is a change to their editorial policy, I will continue to not read or click on anything from the Fail. I still have difficulty in accepting that both @OxVox and @OUSP provide content. Andrew Colley should resign and an apology printed, and posted, for the lies and misinformation propogated by this rag.

Further to this, both organisations have me on their mailing list. Send me the article direct.
I agree that the OM's behaviour throughout has been despicable ( I feel sorry for Liam Rice who seems to try and put a more positive sklant on the new stadium).
The local newspaper should be behind the only professional football club in the county. Not trying to kill it.
 
Until there is a change to their editorial policy, I will continue to not read or click on anything from the Fail. I still have difficulty in accepting that both @OxVox and @OUSP provide content. Andrew Colley should resign and an apology printed, and posted, for the lies and misinformation propogated by this rag.

Further to this, both organisations have me on their mailing list. Send me the article direct.

"OXFORD United have done the hard work on the pitch and secured Championship status for 2025/26. Whilst this is incredibly important for us, the next two months will decide the long-term future – even survival – of our club, writes Oxford United Supporters’ Panel chair Janine Bailey.
The recent statement by the club and Firoka announcing that a short-term extension for the use of the Kassam Stadium has been agreed has been welcomed by fans.

This has always been OUSP’s preferred short-term solution whilst construction of a new stadium takes place.

The other option, groundsharing, would have created so many practical and emotional barriers for fans that there would inevitably have been a falling away of attendance, just at a time when our fanbase is growing.

Fans unable to travel, whether for physical or financial reasons, would have lost contact with their community. We are therefore delighted that the club and Firoka have agreed this short-term extension.

Nonetheless it is only a short-term solution, which leaves many obstacles to overcome. The extension guarantees only one additional season (until 2027) after the expiry of the current licence in summer 2026, with a third season until 2028 available only if planning permission has been granted.
So, there is our cliff edge – without planning permission the club has no ground to play at after summer 2027.

The statement makes it perfectly clear that there is no long-term future for Oxford United at the Kassam Stadium, despite widespread claims to the contrary. It is The Triangle or nothing, planning permission is crucial.

CDC has now set the target planning decision date as July. This will allow the planning officers time to consider additional information provided in April and provides for a further public consultation period until the end of May.

Many supporters have already written in support of the plans: we encourage you to take advantage of this additional period to reinforce your support, even if you have written in previously.

You may find it useful to read April’s submissions under ‘supporting documents’ on Cherwell’s planning website (application 24/00539/F).

These updated planning documents address a number of the previous concerns raised. For example, on traffic management – an understandable concern for those living in the locality – there is
additional data in respect of traffic impact alongside a comprehensive transport strategy. There is further clarity over controlled parking zones which will dovetail with the new housing planned.

The documents provide clear justification of the ‘very special circumstances’ required to develop on designated Green Belt, including the existential requirement for a new stadium which is reinforced by the statement that remaining at the Kassam is not an option.

The club has already demonstrated these circumstances in previous submissions but have updated their case in the light of recent changes to the National Planning Policy Framework in December, which introduced the concept of ‘grey belt’, which may well be applicable to The Triangle.

We urge you to look at the plans and send in your comments. You can find further guidance at oxvox.org.uk/cdc-may-30 "
 
Those of us who have had dealings with this particular Councillor, have know for years what snake he is. His strong personality has ruined Kidlington and will continue to hold back real progress, but he still gets elected.
For the life of me I can't work out why people still vote for him. At election time he no longer knocks on my door after we had words some time ago.
 
If he does that, he really is the worst person going. There is a mental health crisis going on and for him to attempt that would be beyond the pale.

A truly awful awful man.
Steady on son. I know you can't go a day without insulting the fella but let's wait and see eh?

I know he's a shameless liar and all round charlatan but this isn't helpful.
 
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