Large developments

• Controversy, controversy!

  The Civic Society's first involvement in the Castle Mill flats row.

  12 April 2012

  Was anyone really aware of the visual impact of the colossal student residence development being built by the University of Oxford at Castle Mill in Roger Dudman Way alongside Port Meadow? Our photograph shows how the five storey blocks with aggressively profiled pitched roofs intrude on the Meadow. Our Vice Chair, on a walk led by the wild life trust BBOWT, starting from the Wolvercote car park well over a mile away from the development, described it as “a desecration of a much loved landscape."

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