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Marston Road yellow said:
The council seem to be actively squeezing the smaller non food and beverage retailers out of the city. Ask any retailer in the Covered Market.
They want it to be a food hub and it’s the only independent retail sector of the city.
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The Covered Market is working well now though as a food and drink centre, my mate runs one of the bars and is doing well. It's a lot better than Cornmarket, which is truly s**t
 
werthersoriginal said:
The Covered Market is working well now though as a food and drink centre, my mate runs one of the bars and is doing well. It's a lot better than Cornmarket, which is truly s**t
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That’s exactly my point the retailers in the covered market that arnt food and beverage are struggling. The Garden for example weren’t allowed to have their Christmas trees out last year because they wanted food tables placed outside. I know that decision cost the owner thousands. They are strangling the non food outlets.
 
holdsteady said:
I only left Oxford 7 years ago.

I got the train back to meet up with mates on Saturday though, was a bit early, so had a bit of time for a walk around the city centre, the state of it was a bit of a shock as I don't look around often, loads of shops shut, street vendors selling tat, add that to the state of the Botley Road works which I had a good view of from the train and I don't think I would trust the people who have overseen all this since I left to manage a city and make decisions.

Used to miss Oxford, but after that I think that's gone, lots of better places to live that actually care about locals around the country, its turning into a very divided place thats a bit of a dive, scandalous that it has been allowed to get like this.
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The centre is a bit s**t nowadays, especially Cornmarket. Loads of 'Harry Potter' shops which are the new American candy stores and surely a front for money laundering.

Perhaps more blame can be placed on the City council there.

Northstandboy said:
The major issue in the East Oxford route into the Centre is Magdalen College School. As soon as the school is closed (often before all other school) the Cowley Road has hardly any queue. Maybe more investment in School busses is needed.
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And have little Tarquin and Orlando taking the bus with the plebs? No, sir! We must take them in the white Range to keep up standards.

If you can find a way to diminish school traffic, especially for the independent schools, you'd solve most of the problems in term time.

I have some sympathy with OCC. Traffic in Oxford is fairly horrendous and a measure was needed to do something about it. They have gone for the full blown 'prevent it in the first place' method which has been a disaster. It certainly feels more targeted when those in OX3 and OX4 are impacted most.

In my view, a better system would be marking certain roads as one-way only as a way to keep private cars off main bus routes. LTNs simply force all the traffic onto the main roads leading to congestion and late running buses. The residents of the one way streets would have half the amount of traffic travelling through and the roads could allow for two-way cycle lanes to encourage Oxford as a cycling city.

But, nah, that's too much common sense.
 
Northstandboy said:
Actually really upset by this news. Used to visit this as a child and go with my kids to buy stock:

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Used to work there a looooooong time ago with Bob in the Plant Room, I`ve known Barry for donkeys years, his Mum & Dad lived about 10 doors down from us. His sister Karen bought the house opposite Mum`s.
 
Spent many hours in there with my kids on the way home from primary school (several years ago). Always a pleasure to visit and it's a crying shame that it's closing down
 
Essexyellows said:
Used to work there a looooooong time ago with Bob in the Plant Room, I`ve known Barry for donkeys years, his Mum & Dad lived about 10 doors down from us. His sister Karen bought the house opposite Mum`s.
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Did he live in Headington and had garden with fish in?
 
That’s a real shame, I tend to make up some flimsy excuse to go and look at all the fish.
 
Used to buy all our fish from there.
 
I could tell many tales of working there......... :ROFLMAO:

Opening the polystyrene fish & plant boxes with welding gloves "just in case" there was anything venomous in there.

Collecting a pallet of said boxes from Heathrow, opening the back of the van in Oxford and meeting a very colourful 4ft snake.

Scorpions and other creepy crawlies were "the norm".

"Bob the Plant" wasn`t only called that because he worked with the plants....... 🚬 if you follow....

All the fish went into quarantine tanks and got treated with various chemicals for different potential diseases........... cleaning the tanks between batches involved a large syphon tube to empty the water....... suck too hard and you`ll never get gill fungus. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Great fun for 13 year old me, some great laughs and some great people.
 
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