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Tourism businesses are predicting a staycation boom as foreign holidays look set to come with severe restrictions. Holiday cottage booking companies and camping sites are reporting huge demand after lockdown restrictions are eased on April 12. Andrew Robson, of The Camping and Caravanning Club, said: “Compared to 2019, there has been a 52 per cent increase in the number of pitches booked at our Chipping Norton and Oxford Club sites this year. “We anticipate that once we reopen, we are going to have a good year, and advance bookings continue to remain strong, mirroring the trend elsewhere across the UK – and there is still plenty of availability.
Downton Abbey fans are partly paying for an exciting project to transform a village community hub in Bampton. The Old Grammar School will soon be reconstructed with new stairs, fitting out of the top floor and the complete restoration and updating of the ground floor. There will be a new exhibition space, a computerised archive, a larger shop and a state-of-the-art library. Bampton doubled as the fictional northern village of Downton in the hit ITV series. Some of the most famous scenes were shot there, including Lady Mary’s wedding to Matthew Crawley which was filmed at St Mary’s Church.
Barton Park development SHIFTING goalposts in planning targets may leave areas of countryside around Oxford open to housing development. Since 2017, the county has had a special arrangement with the Government where planning chiefs must demonstrate three years worth of homes are being built to meet predicted need for housing. But now, all five of Oxfordshire’s district councils, which oversee planning, will have to revert to the normal arrangements of maintaining a five-year housing land supply, to meet housebuilding targets calculated by the Government. Property firm Savills has said the change leaves all Oxfordshire councils at risk of developers building on land which is not set aside for homes if they cannot show they have a five-year supply, while council leaders have said they are disappointed.
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