Vim and vigour (From The Oxford Times)

Vim and vigour

10:19am Thursday 2nd July 2009 in

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Sir – Reading your editorial in this week’s The Oxford Times I was surprised to read that Headington residents had been ‘stopped in their tracks’ by Oxford Brookes’ amendment to their application for their proposed new student centre and there had been ‘complete silence from us’.

Plans of the amended application were only available from Ramsey House on Tuesday 23rd after your deadline for letters, and details of the revised proposal did not appear on the council website until Thursday, June 25, after you had gone to press.

Surely what is required is not a knee jerk reaction but a considered response to these new amendments. Given its scale, this is what it deserves. As has been evident in recent weeks, this is a massive development which will impact on the lives of the entire residential community of East Oxford.

We welcome these ongoing discussions as a step in the right direction but it is clear that objections to height, mass, location and usage still stand.

You will get a detailed response from us after we have gone through the new submission and the not inconsiderable amount of architectural jargon that goes with it.

Make no mistake we intend to fight this new application with as much vim and vigour as the previous one.

Colin Rosser Oxford