Developer unveils new plans for student housing in Oxford
A new scheme has been drawn up to build student accommodation on Oxford’s St Clement’s car park.
An earlier proposal for the site sparked months of protests from residents, traders and Oxford University – with objections about the loss of car parking and the impact on a conservation area near Magdalen Bridge – before it was rejected by councillors.
But the developer Watkin Jones has returned with this proposal for two four-storey blocks linked by a glass-sided bridge. A new pedestrian street would run through the middle of the development, linking St Clement’s Street to Angel and Greyhound Meadow …