Householders prefer noise from trains to Oxford student flats (From Oxford Mail)

Householders prefer noise from trains to Oxford student flats (From Oxford Mail)

HOUSEHOLDERS have hit out at plans to build new student flats directly overlooking their gardens – insisting they would rather have noise from trains.

Plans for a new 74-bedroom block, pictured below, to be built on for waste land in Osney Lane, have been submitted to Oxford City Council.

But residents of nearby Mill Street, on to which the development will back, say the building will be one metre higher than their houses and block views from their gardens.

Oxfordshire County councillor Susanna Pressel said: “People feel it may overdominate their gardens, being three storeys high. A lot of them like having the green area at the back of their houses too.”