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According to Oxford City Council, "the £500 million redevelopment of the Westgate Centre is a key part of the regeneration of Oxford city centre, creating high quality buildings designed by world-class architects and providing more than 3,400 new full-time equivalent jobs." [15] [16] The new centre reopened on 24 October 2017. [17]
Oxford Properties ranked first in Sustainability in North America in the Diversified Retail/Office Category by GRESB survey for the fourth year in a row in 2016. [9] GRESB is an industry-driven organization committed to assessing the ESG performance of real assets globally, including real estate portfolios and infrastructure assets. [10]
The building is now a Graduate Centre for St Edmund Hall, one of the Oxford University colleges, along with other houses in Norham Gardens used for its student accommodation. [14] As of 2023, the college is developing the site and the adjacent 17 Norham Gardens [15] as "Norham St Edmund" (NSE).
[citation needed] The Sustrans cycle path is accessible from the village across the river Thames and offers easy access to Oxford city centre along the river. Sandford is a scheduled stop for Salters Steamers' river boat services between Oxford and Abingdon. A regular local bus service between Wallingford and Oxford city centre serves the village.
From 1889 to 1974 the city of Oxford was a county borough, independent from the county council. [25] Oxford City Council meets at the Town Hall on the street called St Aldate's in the city centre. The current building was completed in 1897, on a site which had been occupied by Oxford's guildhall since the 13th century. [26]
Terraced houses on the north side of the main crescent of Park Town. North side of the main Park Town crescent, with a traditional Victorian Penfold-style hexagonal pillar box . Park Town is a small residential area in central North Oxford , a suburb of Oxford , England.
A shopping centre in central Cowley was first proposed in the late 1950s. By 1959, the proposal had received strong endorsement from Oxford City Council, and an embargo on new shopping developments along the nearby Cowley Road was enforced. The development was opposed by William Beveridge, who felt that Cowley was the wrong location for the ...
Oxford Town Hall is a public building on the street called St Aldate's in central Oxford, England. [1] It is both the seat of Oxford City Council and a venue for public meetings, entertainment and other events. It also includes the Museum of Oxford. Although Oxford is a city with its own charter, the building is referred to as the "Town Hall ...