Homes refused permission at Jack Straw's Lane, Oxford
EIGHT homes planned for a carpenters yard off Marston Road have been refused planning permission because of the added number of cars it would create. The eight semi-detached homes, four three-bedroom houses and four four-bedroom houses, would have been built where a series of empty sheds sit behind Jack Straw's Lane, a residential street in New Marston. Oxford City Council's east area planning committee refused permission for the homes because its rulebook for housebuilding said the homes had to be 'car-free' because of their location in a Controlled Parking Zone. Cantay Estates, the ...