Demolition of existing dwelling house. Erection of 1 x 3 bed detached dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) and 2 x 4 bed semi-detached dwellinghouses (Use Class C3). Provision of private amenity space, bin and cycle storage.
Tree Works
22/02451/CAT
The Tree Officer is evaluating this application
Address
The White House 102 Church Way
Description
Fell to Multiple Trees as specified by Mr Martin Lister in the Iffley Village Conservation Area
See below local organisations involved in many ways, both across Oxford and in OX4 FOIV and other groups also hope to support. Volunteers and/or donations are welcome! Oxford Food Hub (formerly Oxford Food Bank) https://oxfordfoodhub.org admin@oxfordfoodhub.org
Oxford Food Hub – the centre of surplus food redistribution in Oxfordshire, rescuing surplus food from wholesalers, supermarkets, restaurants and more, and redistributing it to charities and community organisations across Oxfordshire. ‘We do not charge charities or suppliers and last year we redistributed over £1.5 million of food, supported entirely by your donations.’ OX4 Food Crew https://www.ox4foodcrew.co.uk ox4freefoodcrew@flosoxford.org.uk
The OX4 Food Crew is an alliance of 9 local grassroots organisations, working towards a shared mission – that everyone in OX4 has enough food, is well nourished and can thrive. Activities include: Food Parcels (Delivered or Collected) These are available throughout the week via Oxford Mutual Aid and Oxford Community Action Free/donations based Community Meals These are currently planned to take place every Monday lunchtime at Flos the Place in the Park and Ark-T Plus occasionally at other times. Cooked Meal Deliveries/Collections Can be delivered to anyone living in OX4 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, or they can collect. Drop in meals Available from Waste2Taste cafe at any time they are open (Tues, Weds, Thurs daytimes)
From Oxford City Council: consulting on the Oxford Local Plan 2040 Preferred Options document. The Local Plan 2040 will set out the planning strategy for meeting the needs of the city and once adopted, will be used in determining planning applications for a wide range of development. It will guide how development happens, helping to support the transition towards a zero carbon city, ensuring high quality design, being conscious of health and wellbeing, and addressing inequalities.
Last summer [the Council] asked you what issues the new Local Plan should cover. [The Council] have listened to what local communities, businesses and other organisations told them and are now considering a range of policy options. The Preferred Options document gives you the chance to comment on the proposed approaches to a range of issues. The consultation period runs from 3rd October 2022 until the 14th November 2022.
OCC website (www.oxford.gov.uk/localplan2040) have published the main Preferred Options document, background papers and studies on key issues, and a draft sustainability appraisal. Comments on these documents can be submitted online, using the consultation portal, found here:https://consultation.oxford.gov.uk/. There is the opportunity to respond to the main document using our detailed online questionnaire, or to complete the shorter online questionnaire. If you prefer to respond in writing or email, please email planningpolicy@oxford.gov.uk.
Paper copies of the main Preferred Options document are available to view in libraries.
The planning policy team will be at a number of locations across Oxford, throughout the consultation period, where people can come and chat to us. Details are available on the website: www.oxford.gov.uk/localplan2040
22/01953/FUL | Demolition of existing conservatory. Erection of a part single, part two storey extensions to both side elevations. Erection of single storey rear extension. First floor bay window extension. Removal of 1no. chimney.
Court Place
There are now monthly meetings with Felthams in accordance with our mutual agreement that we are fully involved with construction matters as they affect the residents of Rose Hill and Iffley. Already we are having to be forthright with Felthams on issues such as access, dangerous parking and keeping nearby residents informed.
The next meeting is September 28th. Please let Phil planning@friendsofiffley.org know of anything you wish to be raised.
Additionally on the 28th we will be meeting Damon Brown who is Legal & Generals Joint Venture representative, so we can get their perspective on progress.
(Court Place is a Joint Venture between Legal & General/Oxford University Developments)
Partial demolition of existing garden wall. Insertion of 2no. rooflights to west elevation and 3no. rooflights to east elevation in association with a loft conversion. Insertion of 1no. window to east elevation and 1no. window to south elevation. Alteration to 1no. door to west elevation.
22/01689/FUL
Last Date for Comments 26th Aug
Address
7 Bay Tree Close Oxford Oxfordshire OX4 4DT
Description
Erection of a single storey rear extension.
Court Place
• Demolition is now well underway • Archaeological investigation will start in a few weeks • We are pressing Felthams on their approach to creating a legacy for the community. We would you like your views on what they could do? • We continue to monitor that Felthams are abiding to their Considerate Constructors Scheme commitments
Application to certify that the existing front garden wall is lawful development. (Amended application form and additional evidence).
Guidance – In response to a question from FOIV the Planning Officer has said ‘I would recommend focussing your comments specifically as to whether the wall complies with permitted development. For example in the determination of this application, I am unable to consider the design of the wall, it is merely an assessment as to whether it complied with legislation. For reference, the part of legislation which the applicant considers the wall to meet is Class A, Part 2, Schedule 2, of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended).’
Court Place
We facilitated the successful disposal of the furniture and white goods from the old properties
Demolition could start w/b July 18th
The traffic proposals have been significantly changed following our representation to the planners.
Deliveries can only take place between 09.30-14.30 via Rosehill
We continue to press for more proactive communications from Feltham
Consideration for pedestrians
Have you checked your garden frontage recently? This year has seen an unusually large amount of growth to hedges and overhanging trees. Can those of all abilities still use the full width of the footpath?
Comment on the new construction at Court Place and Gardens from Friends of Iffley Village (FOIV)
People have lived and farmed in Rose Hill and Iffley for thousands of years. Court Place takes its name from the mediaeval Manorial Court on this site built next to the universally admired Romanesque church of St Mary the Virgin (c.1160). With all the land owned by The Poor Men of Donnington and bordered by then unspoiled meadows and fields, Court Place encompassed the legal, spiritual and economic centre of Iffley, Rose Hill and Littlemore.
Court Place has long attracted generations of distinguished tenants and self-absorbed undergraduates, church-crawlers, moody poets, dogwalkers, courting couples, at least one saint (Saint John Henry Newman) and authors galore eg The Revd Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). Then in the 1960s, the University began encouraging post-graduates who brought with them, families! A modest range of asbestos-infested houses was built which are now being demolished in favour of pan-collegiate family housing development by Oxford University Developments (OUD), a joint venture between the University and Legal & General; all within an enhanced landscape including all-ages, all-ability pathways both within Court Place Gardens and Oxford University Woods. Please see the map.
With the community’s interest at heart, FOIV has been involved from the beginning with OUD and Legal & General to ensure the new Court Place will be sympathetic to its setting. We are now working with the constructor Feltham to ensure the impact of the work is minimised and a legacy for our community. Feltham has committed to exceeding the minimum conformance standards in the Considerate Contractor Scheme, Peter McCarthy (peter.mccarthy@feltham.construction.co.uk) is our primary point of contact.
Troth Wells Chair, FOIV July 2022
On your behalf, FOIV is responsible for preserving, conserving and enhancing the quality of life where we live, from providing welcome packs to overseeing planning and traffic issues. Join us at friendsofiffley.org. For any traffic or planning issues contact Phil Hart at planning@friendsofiffley.org. Contact FixMyStreet.com to get action on road issues.
Court Place: a lasting legacy – Current status reports by Oxford University Asset and Space Management and Nicholson:Lockhart Garrett
Residents are very aware of the disruption and permanent harm new building – and intended new building – can have on our increasingly fragile eco-balance. At Court Place, Oxford University Developments is seeking to enhance the quality of the new housing project in two specific ways:
First, by increasing the range of plants and animals found in the Rivermead Nature Park and OU woodlands, by removing low-quality trees and shrubs to give new, better specimens more room to grow and let more light reach the ground, encouraging natural regeneration of young trees as well as providing visitors with a new, all-weather woodland path (see map). This work is being done under the leadership of Iain Critchlow, the University’s Director of Asset and Space Management. Quality trees within Court Place Gardens are being retained and protected to ensure there will be no damage to existing root systems. A new planting scheme will encourage biodiversity through the use of species rich grassland mixes, native shrub and tree planting.
Secondly and equally important, ecological survey work has been ongoing at Court Place Gardens by Nicholson:Lockhart Garratt since 2017, led by Jo Alderton, including habitat surveys, water sampling for newt eDNA and badger surveys. In relation to bats we have inspected every tree in Court Place for potential bat roosting along with daytime and nocturnal surveys of the buildings. Feltham Construction is working to ensure no bats are harmed during the demolition/construction phases and roosting features for bats, swifts and owls will be integrated into the new buildings.
Acknowledgement
FOIV thanks Feltham Construction for sponsoring this insert into the Iffley Parish Magazine as part of their community outreach programme.
The sign at the proposed entrance coming off Meadow Lane includes (along with all the others): “A small number of trees will be removed to allow the path to connect to Meadow Lane. Replacement trees will be provided nearby to compensate for this” with the image:
“We’ve run out of the red and white tape originally used to denote the trees impacted (I’ll get some ordered in today). There’s quite a lot of low-level growth there now (including nettles!) that would be a shame to disturb. I’m of the opinion that the sign’s text and images gives a reasonable indication of the trees that will be impacted.
If/when submitted, the publicly viewable planning application will include the detailed tree impact drawing and will be open to comments from the public.” Oxford Direct Services.
FOIV has responded: ‘We are concerned that the consultation does not offer any alternatives to the one route on offer. There should be a discussion of other possibilities. On the one proposed route, there are no details about the number of trees that would be felled, and undergrowth area cleared, to make enough space for a cycle/wheelchair route to descend/ascend in a graduated manner from Meadow Lane to the track. It could not go directly up as the incline is too steep, ie the level difference is too great. So, on the one proposed route, we feel that the proposed destruction of the trees is unnecessary. Cheaper and equally effective routes could be adopted that would achieve the ends that OCC/Oxfordshire County Council/ODS have set themselves. We think there should be further consultation.’
A meeting with OCHL’s head, Helen Horne, and the new project manager, Rebecca Jacob, was helpful but we are still awaiting the planning application for the Horse Fields. We asked for wide publicity of the application; however the Council is only obliged to advertise it in the local press and to post up the regular planning notices. However FOIV will advise as soon as it is made public and the statutory consultation period of 21 days starts.
Regarding the Memorial Field, OCHL advised that it will be managed by Oxford Direct Services (ODS).
Iffley Mead
The proposal is for 89 houses, with traffic exiting through Augustine Way. We have not yet received notice of the application for this, and we do not know whether the proposal is at the pre-planning stage. We will advise as soon as more information is forthcoming from the County Council (the owners of the field).
Cycle Route across Donnington Recreation Ground
You may have seen the trees with tape around them on Meadow Lane, and the notices up about ‘Consultation to start soon’. This is in regard to the Council’s plans to create a new route for cyclists across the Rec, to try and discourage use of the direct, diagonal track and to protect the football pitches. Many are unhappy with the proposed felling of trees, and the possible routing for the track will need to be fully examined. We will advise when more is known. These tapes and notices have now been removed, and a certain amount of cutting back of trees has been undertaken.
