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At the end of 2019, tourists and other visitors started calling in at the new Christ Church visitor centre in Oxford. There are usually one million visitors each year to the meadow, with 452,000 of them paying visitors to see inside the college where The Hall was used for Harry Potter films. Then the pandemic hit and Christ Church was affected by a drop in visitors like so many other attractions around Oxford. Now, the visitor s centre s shop is reopening from Monday, as non-essential shops are allowed to reopen under the government s roadmap out of lockdown. Pubs and restaurants can serve customers outside from Monday and will be allowed to serve customers inside from May 17.
How the new Church of the Holy Family may look when built. Picture: via Oxford City Council PROPOSALS to demolish a 20th century church in Blackbird Leys are recommended to be approved by Oxford planning chiefs next week. The Church of the Holy Family at Cuddeson Way, Blackbird Leys, could be demolished and replaced with a new church, a community centre, and 21 homes and flats. The church, built in a heart-shaped with a rare example of a hyperbolic paraboloid roof made from timber, is considered an architectural gem by some, who have objected to its demolition. But the trustees of the church have said the costs of maintaining the current building are prohibitive, as the roof is leaking and floors are sloping.
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SANITISER STORE: A giant metal cupboard full of hand sanitiser could be built on a vacant building plot currently used as a car park. Oxford University wants to build a temporary hand sanitiser store on the building plot at the centre of the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. In a letter explaining its plans, the University says it is currently storing hand sanitiser in locations across its estate, but adds because it is flammable, this is deemed to be a risk. The industrial quantities of hand sanitiser would be moved to locations like the store in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter to prevent this risk.