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General New Stadium Plans - The Triangle - Planning

New Stadium Project

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Planning Portal: Planning Application - 24/00539/F

Latest from Club: New Stadium scoops 'Deal of the Year' Award
Latest from CDC: 11/09/2024
The Council is currently undertaking a period of statutory re-consultation, following the receipt of the applicant’s North Oxford VISSIM Model Scoping Report, dated August 2024.The Council has also issued a second Regulation 25 request, pursuant to the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (‘The EIA Regulations’), requiring the applicant to supply further information. Upon receipt of this additional information, there will be a further period of statutory re-consultation.

Target Decision Date: February 2025.
 

Site 28 'Land north of Oxford Parkway Station' would be the main one, I guess. Stratfield Brake is Site 40. I suspect @Colin B could confirm.

Re-reading this again, some are wild. Site 12 under 'Allocated sites' - 'The John Radcliffe Hospital'. I know that Savills had to show all their working but ploughing down the county's main hospital for a football stadium is a bit far fetched.

(Something I'd glossed by for the last two years - Site 26 'Oxford City Football Club' at Marsh Lane. It says 'Oxford City Council have turned down historic approaches by OUFC'. Savills state that 'We understand from OU that the site is not viable due to issues relating to access, its size and traffic.' Well, obviously ...)
Yes, Site 28. Although it is shown as one site, it actually had a tenant farmer on one half and it therefore had to be considered as two separate sites and bids. The club would have preferred all of it, but that was not possible.
 
We also looked at the land next to Parkway and the aggregate works.

There were two fields to the north of Parkway car park, one was a larger field that was privately owned and approaches were made to the owner, but they were not interested at all. There were other logistical issues with this piece of land too.

There was a smaller field immediately bordering the car park (about the size of the Triangle), also privately owned, and negotiations were entered into, and offers made (of several £m), but an agreement couldn't be reached, for a number of reasons. It was an awkward shape and would have required us to take part of the existing car park, and also re-route the car park access. We had plans drawn up and even a 3D fly through video of the stadium produced, which I've still got.

All of this was in 2019 and the video was produced in October 2019, so it really annoys me when the opposition claim that we didn't do anything until 2022, that we never looked at other sites, and that we were only interested in what they call "free public land". Nothing could be further from the truth, but they're not interested in the truth, as they constantly prove every time they open their mouths.
As the Fail seem to be quite happy to print these letters, from both sides, it would be really useful to get your reply in print to counter the narrative, as we've had several 'anti' letters in a row now.

Would you be willing to send this?
 
As the Fail seem to be quite happy to print these letters, from both sides, it would be really useful to get your reply in print to counter the narrative, as we've had several 'anti' letters in a row now.

Would you be willing to send this?
Sorry, but I'm not really one of life's letter writers, and further to that I'm very anti Oxford Mail, so have no wish to enter into correspondence with them.

If somebody else wanted to use the basic information from my post, in a letter to the Oxford Mail, then I'd have no problem with that.
 
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When SB was first mentioned, I believe that KPC could indeed have named their price to relinquish the lease and all the sports clubs on SB would have been re-homed.

Ironically, if the cricket club had been re-located by OUFC, housing developers would not now be using it as a trojan horse to secure development on the "Land behind The Moors".....
 
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