A TURRETED museum with roof top walkways celebrating the history of storytelling has been given the go-ahead by planning bosses.

Proposals for the £11m Story Museum in Oxford impressed city councillors with its unusual design, which includes turrets and an ‘enchanted library’.

They also gave designers freedom to make the building more “fantastical” without further consultation.

The purchase of the large Pembroke Street building in 2009 was bank-rolled by an anonymous donor, and since then fundraising has gone on to refurbish the whole site.

Part of the building is currently used for exhibitions but the whole museum is now set to officially open its doors in 2015.

At a meeting of Oxford City Council’s west area planning committee in the Town Hall on Wednesday there was unanimous support for the application.

Co-director of the museum Tish Francis said they had been working with other city museums and hundreds of schools to develop an education and literacy programme.

She said: “This museum will be the first of its kind in the world and hopefully will be a model for others to follow suit.”