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See above its the full cost designing getting planning permission building the thing cost of materials etc
Irish PM: '€336k bike shelter is inexcusable' https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39k2glg2j3o
As it should be, £600k seems perfectly reasonable.
Billy, you remain, as ever, my absolute hero. First to all the important news, always!!This is the first draft of the legally binding Section 106 Agreement (s.106) between:
Cherwell District Council (CDC)
Oxfordshire County Council (OCC)
National Highways
DB Cargo / Network Rail interests
Oxford United Football Club Ltd (OUFC)
It is the legal document that must be completed before planning permission is issued, because it locks in all the club’s obligations — financial, environmental, transport, employment, community — and makes them legally enforceable.
This is the document that objectors always claim “doesn’t exist yet.”
Well, here it is — and it's a monster.
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What the s.106 Actually Does
The document does three things:
1. Makes the stadium acceptable in planning terms
2. Secures the long-term protections (biodiversity, woodland, transport, community use)
3. Forces OUFC to legally fund various off-site improvements and infrastructure
It covers 53 pages of binding obligations.
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The Five Big Parts Explained
1. Legal Framework & Land Ownership
Pages 1–16 show:
CDC owns part of the land (leasehold)
OCC owns most of the freehold land
National Highways owns a strip
Network Rail/DB Cargo hold operational rail parcels
OUFC holds a conditional option to buy once permission is granted
This demonstrates: nobody else has any legal claim, and OUFC’s option is fully recognised.
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2. Biodiversity Net Gain – 20% BNG (Schedule 2)
Massive section requiring:
Full Habitat Management & Monitoring Plan
20% net gain, far above the 10% legal minimum
Monitoring for 30 years
Annual / multi-year reports at years 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30
Mandatory defect correction
Mandatory BNG unit purchase if needed
£4,400 initial BNG monitoring fee
This is enormous — objectors constantly claim OUFC “don’t protect biodiversity.”
This document shows the opposite.
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3. Woodland Protection – 25-Year Management Plan (Schedule 3)
Covers the woodland to the west of the site:
Full Woodland Management and Monitoring Plan
25-year protection programme
Protection against:
public access pressure
litter
invasive species
lighting/noise impacts
dust during construction
Defect correction requirements
Multi-year monitoring reports
£3,850 monitoring fee
This is exactly the kind of long-term safeguard FoSB pretends doesn’t exist.
It’s written right here, legally binding.
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4. Employment, Skills & Training Plan (Schedule 4)
OUFC must provide:
10 apprenticeship starts
Local-first hiring (Cherwell residents first, then Oxfordshire, then region)
Work with local agencies (Job Centre Plus, oxme.info etc.)
Annual reporting
Quarterly monitoring meetings
This is a real economic uplift, secured in law.
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5. Financial Contributions (Schedule 5)
This is the big money.
A. Public Art / Public Realm Contribution
£141,702
To be spent on internal and external public art connected with the stadium
Must be paid before first occupation
B. Chiltern Railways Contribution
A huge package totalling £1.35 million, covering:
1. New match-day gates – £200k
2. 4 new platform shelters – £200k
3. Dedicated match-day toilet block – £600k
4. Full wayfinding/signage overhaul – £50k
5. New control room – £200k
6. Match-day barriers & storage – £100k
This section is incredibly detailed (pages 33–35).
This is not vague money — this is itemised, costed, and justified infrastructure.
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6. Community Use Agreement (Schedule 6)
OUFC must legally provide:
Oxfordshire FA annual finals day
150 free hours per year of:
Sensory Room
Executive Box
Discounted facility use for schools and charities
Quarterly community events delivered by OUFC & OUitC
Training and education spaces for Oxford Brookes
This is the largest guaranteed programme of community benefit OUFC has ever committed to.
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7. CDC Covenants (Schedule 7)
CDC agrees:
To spend the contributions only on the agreed purposes
To return unspent funds after 10 years (except Chiltern Railways money)
This protects OUFC from councils sitting on funds or misusing them.
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What This All Proves
This document shows:
✔ OUFC’s commitments are vast, detailed, and enforceable
✔ The councils have agreed the structure and legal framework
✔ All the big issues objectors shout about are already locked in:
Biodiversity
Woodland protection
Transport infrastructure
Rail capacity
Community use
Employment & apprenticeships
Public realm enhancement
✔ Nothing about this stadium is “unplanned” or “under-explained”
✔ The planning permission cannot be issued without this being signed
This blows apart the common claims from FoSB, Middleton, CPRE, and KPC that:
“There’s no s.106 yet.”
“They haven’t secured biodiversity.”
“There’s nothing to protect the woodland.”
“The rail improvements aren’t funded.”
“The stadium offers no community benefit.”
“There are no local jobs in it.”
Every one of those claims is false.
May I add my thanks to Billy for all his info in the past months and years.
Id expect a personal wiper as well
Billy, there will be signicantly more cost to the club on top of the £1.5m detailed above?This is the first draft of the legally binding Section 106 Agreement (s.106) between:
Cherwell District Council (CDC)
Oxfordshire County Council (OCC)
National Highways
DB Cargo / Network Rail interests
Oxford United Football Club Ltd (OUFC)
It is the legal document that must be completed before planning permission is issued, because it locks in all the club’s obligations — financial, environmental, transport, employment, community — and makes them legally enforceable.
This is the document that objectors always claim “doesn’t exist yet.”
Well, here it is — and it's a monster.
---
The document does three things:
1. Makes the stadium acceptable in planning terms
2. Secures the long-term protections (biodiversity, woodland, transport, community use)
3. Forces OUFC to legally fund various off-site improvements and infrastructure
It covers 53 pages of binding obligations.
---
1. Legal Framework & Land Ownership
Pages 1–16 show:
CDC owns part of the land (leasehold)
OCC owns most of the freehold land
National Highways owns a strip
Network Rail/DB Cargo hold operational rail parcels
OUFC holds a conditional option to buy once permission is granted
This demonstrates: nobody else has any legal claim, and OUFC’s option is fully recognised.
---
2. Biodiversity Net Gain – 20% BNG (Schedule 2)
Massive section requiring:
Full Habitat Management & Monitoring Plan
20% net gain, far above the 10% legal minimum
Monitoring for 30 years
Annual / multi-year reports at years 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30
Mandatory defect correction
Mandatory BNG unit purchase if needed
£4,400 initial BNG monitoring fee
This is enormous — objectors constantly claim OUFC “don’t protect biodiversity.”
This document shows the opposite.
---
3. Woodland Protection – 25-Year Management Plan (Schedule 3)
Covers the woodland to the west of the site:
Full Woodland Management and Monitoring Plan
25-year protection programme
Protection against:
public access pressure
litter
invasive species
lighting/noise impacts
dust during construction
Defect correction requirements
Multi-year monitoring reports
£3,850 monitoring fee
This is exactly the kind of long-term safeguard FoSB pretends doesn’t exist.
It’s written right here, legally binding.
---
4. Employment, Skills & Training Plan (Schedule 4)
OUFC must provide:
10 apprenticeship starts
Local-first hiring (Cherwell residents first, then Oxfordshire, then region)
Work with local agencies (Job Centre Plus, oxme.info etc.)
Annual reporting
Quarterly monitoring meetings
This is a real economic uplift, secured in law.
---
5. Financial Contributions (Schedule 5)
This is the big money.
A. Public Art / Public Realm Contribution
£141,702
To be spent on internal and external public art connected with the stadium
Must be paid before first occupation
B. Chiltern Railways Contribution
A huge package totalling £1.35 million, covering:
1. New match-day gates – £200k
2. 4 new platform shelters – £200k
3. Dedicated match-day toilet block – £600k
4. Full wayfinding/signage overhaul – £50k
5. New control room – £200k
6. Match-day barriers & storage – £100k
This section is incredibly detailed (pages 33–35).
This is not vague money — this is itemised, costed, and justified infrastructure.
---
OUFC must legally provide:
Oxfordshire FA annual finals day
150 free hours per year of:
Sensory Room
Executive Box
Discounted facility use for schools and charities
Quarterly community events delivered by OUFC & OUitC
Training and education spaces for Oxford Brookes
This is the largest guaranteed programme of community benefit OUFC has ever committed to.
---
CDC agrees:
To spend the contributions only on the agreed purposes
To return unspent funds after 10 years (except Chiltern Railways money)
This protects OUFC from councils sitting on funds or misusing them.
---
This document shows:
✔ OUFC’s commitments are vast, detailed, and enforceable
✔ The councils have agreed the structure and legal framework
✔ All the big issues objectors shout about are already locked in:
Biodiversity
Woodland protection
Transport infrastructure
Rail capacity
Community use
Employment & apprenticeships
Public realm enhancement
✔ Nothing about this stadium is “unplanned” or “under-explained”
✔ The planning permission cannot be issued without this being signed
This blows apart the common claims from FoSB, Middleton, CPRE, and KPC that:
“There’s no s.106 yet.”
“They haven’t secured biodiversity.”
“There’s nothing to protect the woodland.”
“The rail improvements aren’t funded.”
“The stadium offers no community benefit.”
“There are no local jobs in it.”
Every one of those claims is false.
Who might that be Sarge?
On the evening of opening day of the new Parkway toilet block, will an un named vinegary woman be spotted, lurking in the shadows, pouring undiluted chemical toilet liquid on the ground outside them, then claiming 'football supporters' are to blame?Thanks for this @Billyox .
A query:
Section 3 Woodland to be protected from “Invasive Species”
Presumably this was included at the behest of FoSb
and refers to football fans
On a serious note ,
£600k for dedicated toilets at Ox Parkway ffs
Yes this doesn't appear to include occ s106 agreement
That's another £600k then.....
And the rest im not drinking kassam stadium shite
does that equate to in addition to S106 agreement, there is more for OUFC to 'payout' - despite FoSB (&KPC) claiming otherwise?
Yes its about £5m-6m worth
Wow! - cheers for the info @Billyox
Especially if you can store your bike in there as well
I think that is what @Concretebob meant by a freshen up man.....
Closer to £10m, once it's all totted up, is what I'm hearing.
In total or just for occ?
Total value of all S106 costs Billy.
I suppose it would be
Not forgetting Middleton's outrageous flouting of the rules when he tried to get £5m for KPC alone!
He doesn't make it easy for anybody to take him seriously does he?
Indeed
LOL! Too late there!
