OCC have a new local plan waiting for approval. It tries to solve the problems OCC are having with their proposals to build on Bertie.
There will only be space for a playground on the current site. Instead of 13 items of equipment, there will be 8 or 9, “depending on safety requirements”.
What will happen to the Multi Use Games Area (MUGA)? They can’t put it on the land behind Wytham Street. This is what Alex Hollingsworth, Vice Chair of the planning committee explains:
If they can’t find anywhere to put a MUGA, they say they will provide “an alternative type of facility” or improve “the capacity of an existing one” in the neighbourhood. What? Fox Crescent?
Do they really think that increasing the size of the kick-about area on Fox Crescent will meet the needs of teenagers in the area?
They are planning at least 230 new homes in the area, not counting whatever they are going to build on the Go Outdoors site.
Save Bertie Park Oxford 