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A recent report has called Oxford’s Covered Market “damned and dated”. Markets consultancy firm The Retail Group has released a report on the market’s current condition at the request of the Oxford City Council. The report complains of the market’s lack of signage and visibility and its “dark and dated internal environment.” Other criticisms include […]
Continue ReadingThe Private Shop on Cowley Road is facing a battle to stay open after the city council received 10 objections against its annual license renewal. Residents and lawyers have claimed that there is a “sub-culture” of sleaze in the area, particularly after nine men were jailed in June for the sexual abuse of local children. […]
Continue ReadingOxford City Council members are denying claims they failed to disclose conflicts of interest before taking a May vote to approve plans for a new £30m Blavatnik School of Government building. David Freud, owner of Jericho’s Freud café, which lies next to the building site on Walton Street across from Oxford University Press, filed an […]
Continue ReadingNathan Akehurst looks at the current housing situation in Oxford and offers some solutions.
Continue ReadingSenior members of Oxfordshire County Council have criticised the national Met Office for not giving the county sufficient warning of heavy snowfall. The wave of snow on Saturday night, which hit at the end of a week where students sitting early Prelims had stayed behind, was tackled by the council later than it usually would […]
Continue ReadingCollege pulls out of graduate accommodation development as councillor compares the plans to a “Trojan horse”
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