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Newsletter November 2006 NEWSLETTER No 105 November 2006 ISSN 0308-9959 Towards a new West End – Tony Joyce, Chairman Oxford West End is bounded by Cornmarket lems and it offers the prospect of some exciting Street/St Aldates, the River Thames (Isis), the rail- new developments to complement existing way and the swathe of development north of Hythe facilities. The aim must be a city centre better Bridge Street/George Street (A4144). The Castle adapted to the present and future needs of its Mill Stream and its tributaries bisect the area. citizens. Oxpens Road/Hollybush Row form the main Of course, the implementation of any plan through route and provide car access to the West- depends on the initiative of landowners (in- gate Centre and its car parks – in part, a key route cluding the city council and some university to the City Centre for public transport. colleges), but when adopted, the AAP will be- come part of the Local Development Frame- work, which is envisaged to take over from the Local Plan in controlling the direction of de- velopment. The AAP must insist at the outset on the highest standards of design – of spaces as well as buildings – and incorporate existing policies on building heights and sustainability issues. What then are the city’s most pressing needs? Housing must surely be top of the list; here the challenge is to find the most effective bal- ance between market, key-worker, affordable and social provision, not forgetting student accommodation. The relationship of flats to houses on city sites needs careful thought and good design, incorporating effective amenity Area Development Framework, March 2006 space and access to green recreational areas, Development of an Area Action Plan (AAP) particularly for families. With housing comes for the city’s West End is now well under way: the need for the appropriate infrastructure – consultation on a Preferred Options Document local shops, post office, school places, GP’s is complete and officers are now digesting the surgeries, perhaps more improved primary responses. It is hoped to submit an agreed health facilities; and, for young people particu- document to the Secretary of State next sum- larly, recreational opportunities. mer, and have the Action Plan fully in place by This is where the future of the Ice Rink be- October 2008. comes so important. It might be refurbished as This may seem a lengthy process, but its im- part of an expanded leisure complex, or it portance can hardly be exaggerated. The West might be removed or replaced, but what it of- End provides the last opportunities within the fers must not be lost to young people in the city centre to tackle some long-standing prob- city centre. Protecting our Heritage, Appreciating our City, Shaping our Future (Registered Charity No. 1116739) Traffic and Transport problems must be an- Frideswide Square: A re-examination of traf- other top priority. The decision to retain the fic, cyclist and pedestrian flows here is now existing railway station and extend it back overdue. Combined City and County Offices across Botley Bridge into the Beckett Street car could have an attractive new setting which re- park has at least removed one major uncer- leases a number of existing sites for redevel- tainty, even if it has eliminated some exciting opment. Good public transport links from all alternatives for the road network and bus sta- over the city (and county) would be essential. tion in the area. Access to this part of the city Further planning would be easier if the unitary will always be limited by the railway, the river authority issue were settled. and the pinch points at Folly Bridge and Botley Good quality hotel accommodation in the Road, so new developments should not stimu- city centre remains short, both to anchor more late increased car traffic, particularly at peak of our too-fleeting tourists, and to support a times, and parking provision will need to be more active term-time conference trade. A carefully controlled. This must restrict the West End location would provide ready access type of any new office development, which is from the rail station and perhaps an attractive nevertheless questionable in a city suffering riverside setting. from the present excess of jobs over living ac- commodation. In general, extra activity in the Larger conferences too could support the area should provide additional customers for move to establish the major Concert Hall public transport, to encourage extended bus which Oxford so richly deserves, the large routes and increased frequencies, particularly auditorium doubling as the central conference to and from the rail station. Route develop- venue. The AAP suggests such a development, ment is also the key to establishing the viable but of only some 600-seat capacity - hardly an bus turning-circles necessary to achieve the increase (though possibly more comfortable!) pedestrianisation of Queen Street. on the existing Sheldonian or a re-vamped Town Hall. Detailed study of the feasibility of Yet many transport questions remain to be more ambitious projects is another urgency. answered. First is the future of tourist coaches. Can these be detained at extended Park + Ride Worcester Street Car Park, so valuable for its sites, with shuttle services to the centre, as at central position on the bus priority route, as a many other heritage cities, or do they need gateway to the city, particularly the Castle site, central drop-off and pick-up points – if so, and at the end of the canal, presents many ex- where? Second, what is the future of Glouces- citing opportunities. A Canal Basin, though ter Green Bus Station? It is in urgent need of difficult and expensive to achieve, could be improved facilities and access, and a better taxi very attractive, as would any feature associ- linkage; but if it is to play a fuller part in the ated with the canal in a new mixed develop- local bus network it can hardly retain all its ment. Whilst some public parking may need long distance coaches. Could some of these to be retained within this, the site seems far too also operate out of extended Park + Ride sites, important to be given over just to parking or as at Cambridge, thus freeing the centre of an equally dreary bus facility. their impact? Do we really need to retain These are by no means all the proposals for coach parking on the valuable Oxpens site, the area, and much further analysis and feasi- when there are so many exciting candidates bility study remains to be completed. Then for its redevelopment? Further exploration of comes the difficult question of how much can these matters seems urgent as the possible ap- fit into the area, and overall the major problem proval of the Westgate Development with its of accommodating it in what is verging on large travel generation, draws closer (see Let- flood plain - the perennial Oxford conundrum! ters Page). The AAP consultation has aroused or rekin- dled debates on many other issues: Page 2 Charitable Status for the Society study, involving carving the garden into nar- row strips; since the house itself is attractive it The Special General Meeting of the Society should perhaps be retained: the decision has held on 11 October 2006 agreed both of the not yet been made. Hard standing for car Resolutions put before it: firstly, that the new parking with loss of landscaping vegetation in Constitution, based on the Civic Trust Model the front garden was proposed at 8 Norham Constitution, be adopted; secondly that the Gardens but we are glad to say that it was re- Society should apply to the Charity Commis- fused. A large box dormer across the rear of 53 sion for it to be granted Charitable Status. Rosamund Road, Wolvercote, was permitted Some questions were raised about the possibil- despite our objection. ity that Charitable Status might restrict the So- ciety's ability in the future to campaign on a In August and September, permission was re- particular issue. The meeting was assured that fused, for the second time, to demolish 9 Kirk this would not be the case. Close and replace it by two 4-bed semi- detached houses. Accommodation for 363 The application to the Charity Commission students was proposed on the site of Dorset was submitted on 17 October and was ap- House, London Road, Headington, in large 3 proved by them with effect from 10 Novem- and 4 storey blocks; the plans attracted many ber. We will be writing to members about Gift objections and were withdrawn in October. In Aid Declarations in our first mailing of 2007 Iffley Road a proposal was made to demolish (see the item on Gift Aid in the lead article of three houses and build tall student blocks, but the July Newsletter, no 104). However, it is in November it was refused on the grounds worth reiterating now how beneficial the sign- that one of the houses, No 190, is of architec- ing of a Gift Aid Declaration by members will tural interest and an important feature of this be for the finances of the Society: our general Conservation Area. There was good news that expenses continue to rise, postage costs are a another Iffley Road house, No 17, has been recent example, and we must be in a position saved on Appeal and should be restored; for to fund any new initiatives arising from the three years there has been a series of propos- recent re-structuring of the Society. als to demolish it and replace it with a block of Gordon Balme, Treasurer flats. A further Iffley Road saga concerns Report from the Planning Sub-Committee Stapledon House, Nos 214 to 230, belonging to Exeter College, who suggested a a large Update on applications mentioned in the July 2006 student development in the back gardens, but Newsletter report: Plans were refused for conver- nothing further has been heard of this.
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