Members of the Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha group in their new Oxford premises OXFORD’S Sikh community had struggled for more than 40 years to find a permanent home but last year they opened the city’s first temple. The group had been moving from venue to venue, beginning at a house in Headington and at one stage using Cheney School. In 2010 they were ordered to stop using their home of four years – a three-bedroom house in Marston – because they did not have planning permission to use it as a place of worship. They were refused retrospective permission by Oxford City Council and, after the Sikhs appealed, the Planning Inspectorate upheld the decision, citing traffic, road safety, noise and disturbance to residents among his concerns.