Response to Oxford City Council's Draft Community Engagement Plan 2014-2017

1 February 2014

The overall message that we glean from this report is ‘more of the same’. We presume, therefore, that there is no ambition to change or develop engagement processes, and it is considered there is limited need to improve them. Is this the unstated intent? We recognise that local authorities are under severe financial constraints, but nevertheless we would expect to see statements about the ‘direction of travel’.

Comments on the developers' initial proposals

30 January 2014

The peace and tranquillity of the cemetery, to which the public have access, will be destroyed and there will be serious shadowing from sunlight. The proposal to provide full restaurant facilities should help alleviate the concept of another ‘student silo’, and the provision of limited additional kitchen facilities in each building, on each floor enhances this aspect.