Campaign to save The Wheatsheaf long way from victory thisisoxfordshire.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thisisoxfordshire.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Oxford Civic Society shares the dismay. Ian Green, chairman of Oxford Civic Society We support the city council’s aim, set out in the Oxford Local Plan, to facilitate a vibrant local economy and cultural diversity, and venues like the Wheatsheaf are an essential grass roots part of that, both in the city and beyond. A key component of the Local Plan is to ensure that the Oxford city region is a centre of innovation. We tend to think that innovation relates to scientific and technological developments, but it also applies to developments in the cultural arena. Contemporary rock, metal, indie, reggae and jazz bands presented and, in some cases, nurtured in The Wheatsheaf have been a grass roots feature of the UK’s hugely successful and internationally-renowned creative music industry.
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A badger. Picture: Ben Birchall/PA BADGERS at a student block once called an eyesore, plans for zero carbon homes at a tradesman s yard and permission for a cash machine which has already been installed are some of the latest planning applications being considered by Oxford City Council. See more at oxford.gov.uk/planning A promise to keep an eye on how badgers put up with builders in exchange for allowing changes to the huge Castle Mill student halls has been noted by the council. Alterations to the roofs of some of the buildings, plus landscaping work including tree planting was signed off in 2017.
This is more than double the average in most schools in Oxfordshire. Thirty per cent of children in Blackbird Leys, Littlemore and parts of Cowley live in poverty (Indices of Deprivation 2019), making the areas in the top 20 per cent of the of the most deprived areas in Britain. Inequalities in life expectancy at birth for men from the least to most deprived areas of Oxford are estimated to be 15 years. For women, there is a smaller gap of around 11 and a half years. Why is it that there will be some further 30,000 more homes going to be built in or near OX4 without adequate educational infrastructure?