• An extension at 8 Staunton Road
• Installing a heat pump at 6 St. Andrew’s Lane

Three applications in Headington Ward this week:

• A variation on existing permission at 20 Osler Road
• A request to use 143 Windmill Road as a House in Multiple Occupancy (HMO)
• A request to increase the number of tenants at an existing HMO, 123 Headley Way, exceeding use-class C4 (up to 6 residents)

Three applications in Headington this week, all at the JR Hospital site! The City’s planning website as out of action at the time of writing, but once it’s back in action you can search for them by code:

• 20/03193/FUL: installing an air-handling plant
• 20/03243/FUL: installing liquid-oxygen storage
• 20/02983/FUL: demolition and replacement of the Barnes Unit and associated work

Imam Monawar Hussain, Muslim Chaplain at Oxford University Hospitals, recently received his COVID vaccine, and posted a video talking about the experience, and discussing why he recommends vaccination.

His colleagues have put together a collection of similar videos in other languages, so far including Farsi, Hindi and Arabic.

Applications in Headington ward this week:

• An application to build flats behind 4 Lime Walk
• Building standing for oxygen tanks at the JR Hospital
• Verifying the House in Multiple Occupancy (HMO) status at 19 Horwood Close

• An extension at 46 Franklin Road
• Another at 6 St Andrew’s Road
• Two applications to certify Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs): 123 Headley Way and 23 Lime Walk.

xxx planning applications in the ward this week:

• Some alterations at the JR hospital
• A demolition and replacement at 20A Osler Road (reapplication after a prior refusal)
• An extension at 80 Lime Walk
• …and another at 7 Rock Edge (another reapplication)

The City Council reiterates that eviction from a private rented accommodation is illegal until January 11th as part of emergency COVID measures. Anyone facing eviction can contact the council on 01865 252267 or find more advice online.

Two in Headington Ward this week:

• An extension at 117 Staunton Road
• A reclassification as a Home in Multiple Occupancy (HMO) at 182 Headley Way

As always, click through the links to view details or comment.

We are putting the following motion before Oxford City Council to support British students currently living in another EU nation:

Oxford should be rightly proud of its record for fighting against injustice, for its record in supporting access to university for all students, and fighting to retain Oxford’s connection to Europe. The Brexit lies and misrepresentations have taken us down a dark period in our country’s history and there’s little doubt that, whatever the outcome of the negotiations, Brexit reduces our right to live, work and retire in over 30 countries. It’s divided the nation and driven many away, and the government, intentionally or unintentionally, continues to sever ties, even with its own citizens.

Frequently overlooked are those British citizens who sought to live or work in the European Union as many have done over the years. Many of their children are often enrolled in their local British school. Most retain links to the UK.   

Until now British students living anywhere in the European Union were included in the home fees agreement (British students who happened to live in an EU country could return to study at a university in the UK and be treated as “Home / EU”).

After the end of the transition period and as of 1st January 2021, British passport-holding students living in the European Union will no longer meet the residency qualification for UK universities. They will be treated as foreign if they’ve not lived in one of the UK’s four nations (England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland) for three years up to when they start the course; and liable to the international fee rate. Yet these same British students will also be seen as foreign in European Universities, where the fees are dependent on nationality, and therefore charged accordingly.

We do not believe that the vote to leave the EU intended to forsake all those British children and their families who had taken the opportunity of living and working in the European Union. The law needs to change to enable those British students living in the EU to be given the opportunity to attend a British university. The opportunity to re-establish ties with the UK. The opportunity for a Higher Education.

Council calls on the Leader to write to the Secretary of State for Education:
1. requesting him to ensure that all British citizens who are resident in the European Union, who are planning to study at UK universities, have access to the home fees rate. 
2. asking that they should also be granted access to be able to apply for student loans.