Residents upset at plans to destroy garages and sheds

Residents upset at plans to destroy garages and sheds

Updated 8:26am Friday 12th September 2014 in News By Alex Wynick, Reporter covering Blackbird Leys and Greater Leys. Call me on 01865 425403

THE refurbishment of Oxfords five tower blocks may be much-anticipated, but some residents are not so happy about plans to destroy their garages and sheds.

Plowman and Foresters Towers, in Headington and Wood Farm, respectively, are losing all of their garages and as much as half of their storage sheds and have to vacate them by January 9.

Oxford City Council is planning to demolish 30 garages and 44 out of 85 sheds from Plowman Tower.

Foresters Tower will lose 36 garages and 13 of its 85 sheds.

The council said it will replace them with about 40 car parking spaces at each tower, as well as more bin space.

Blackbird Leys towers Evenlode and Windrush are not losing any, and Hockmore Tower in Cowley does not have any to lose.

Plowman Tower resident Jenny Webb has had a garage and a shed for the last nine years and wants them to stay.

She said: Theyre saying theyre going to pull them down to benefit the local community, but I cant see how that will affect anyone else.

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