Cornmarket Street during lockdown.23/01/2021.. POP up shops might be used to fill vacant buildings on high streets across Oxfordshire thanks to a £1.875 million grant from a group that backs businesses in the county. The project could see as many as 100 shops in town centres or the middle of Oxford brought into temporary use with start-up restaurants and retailers taking over them, under what is known as ‘meanwhile’ use. The project, dubbed ‘Meanwhile in Oxfordshire’ because of the aim to get businesses into empty shops while a more long-term solution is worked out, is part of a wider £8.4m being spent by the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership aimed at reviving the economy after Covid.
A file pic from an axe-throwing centre, similar to one planned at Boom Battle Bar in Oxford AN AXE-throwing bar has been granted a licence to open in the middle of Oxford, despite objections from police. One member of Oxford City Council’s licensing panel even said they were ‘rather horrified’ by the idea of people smuggling axes out of the establishment, called Boom Battle Bar, which will open in the city’s Castle Quarter. The 250-capacity bar will host a series of other games alongside Bavarian axe-throwing, including crazy golf, and beer pong, which led to police concerns it would increase demand on their weekend work in Oxford.
A TEMPLE to Science will be constructed on the site where an Oxford University building riddled with Asbestos was torn down. A new Life and Mind Building for the University of Oxford was given the go-ahead by Oxford City Council s west area planning committee on Tuesday night. The building on the corner of South Parks Road and St Cross Road will house two departments of the university: Experimental Psychology and a new Department of Biology, combining Zoology and Plant Sciences. It will replace the Tinbergen Building, a mid-20th century concrete building which was full of Asbestos and had previously been home to the Psychology and Zoology departments.