End of the road for Cowley? | The Oxford Student

End of the road for Cowley? | The Oxford Student

Plans for new student accommodation in Cowley have been met with fierce opposition from a residents’ leader.
Elizabeth Mills, leader of the Divinity Road Residents’ Association, has condemned plans for the development of student flats in a former gym.
The planning application brought by Oxford and Oxford Brookes Universities, to be heard this week in a public meeting, proposes to convert The Gym at 381 Cowley Road into 12 flats.

Ms Mills has claimed in statements to the Oxford Mail that the University is turning Cowley into “the student union”. She believes that students bring problems to the area, including noise, parking and the provision for rubbish collection amongst her concerns. The residents’ leader suggested “more houses for families need to be repossessed from students.”