focus on oxford
The next proposed West End Action Area regeneration phase could include a £75m Oxford Station redevelopment.
Osney Mead
A proposed £600m redevelopment of the Osney Mead industrial estate into a knowledge park featuring scientific laboratories and spinouts alongside small and big businesses.
Over 600 homes for graduates and staff are also planned, providing affordable housing for top talent. With planning approval, the 20-year project could begin by 2019.
The search continues for development partners to bring forward these proposed regeneration schemes.
Reputational advantage
Don’t forget, the city has an enviable world-recognised Oxford ‘brand’ of quality and prestige to build upon.
In conclusion...
Oxford has many enviable and attractive attributes, but it is ironically hampered by its unique heritage of local architectural grandeur and international academic prestige – characteristic features that nobody wants to lose.
But, it needs to find a sustainable way of marrying its proud past with its promising future. Maybe the Oxford2050 vision is it, and not an aspirational culture-change dream.
Meanwhile, this city needs to accelerate its pace of progress. Competitor cities such and Cambridge and Reading (a city in all but name) and several major Thames Valley towns are already well advanced in their physical and economic regeneration to satisfy our fast-changing digital age.
As its council strapline states, Oxford is ‘Building a world-class city for everyone’ but it needs to get on and achieve some very necessary developments and tangible improvements – Oxpens, Osney Mead, and a new city centre station linked to a revitalised Varsity Line, for example.
Oxford’s economy is in good shape, but perhaps it needs to emulate Sir Roger Bannister’s energy and determination when he broke the four-minute mile barrier at the city’s Iffley Road athletics track in 1954 – and surprise the world by reaching its achievable destinations quicker than expected.
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