Oxford student flats scheme turned down again
Controversial plans for a 140-room student housing block on Oxford’s St Clement’s car park have been thrown out.
Members of the city council’s west area planning committee last night refused to give planning permission for developer Watkin Jones’s proposals, on the grounds that a reduction in the number of spaces in the car park and plans for a temporary car park off Marston Road during the construction work were unacceptable.
The scheme, for two four-storey blocks of flats, would also have resulted in a reduction in parking spaces from the 112 now available to 80 …