COMMUNITY SITE FOR THE JERICHO DISTRICT OF OXFORD, UK

One the liveliest local groups, the Jericho Singers

Winter scene at the Oxford Canal

Alan Rusbridger (centre right) former Guardian editor, now president of LMH, talking at My Jericho

After a snow storm in Walton Street in 1908. The cleared track is for the horse tramway. See other historic images.

Interesting activity at the Jericho Community Centre

UK and ‘reggae’ flags on display at the Jericho Street Fair

Corner of Walton St and Little Clarendon Street, 1869.  See other historic images.

Jericho’s own little litter pick in July 2017, organized by John Mair, in the fetching pink shirt

Jericho gets its ducks in a row

Susan Moser signs up as a member of the Jericho Community Association

LATEST NEWS

Slow progress on mitigating the impact on Port Meadow

News posted - December 13, 2018

In 2012, some new student flats suddenly appeared alongside the railway line, marring the historic view of the city from Port Meadow. This led to a storm of protest and a ‘Save Port Meadow’ campaign. After four years, including a High Court appeal and several public consultations, the University agreed in 2016 to take measures to mitigate the impact. These included tree planting, repainting the walls a mid-tone buff colour, and replacing the orange timber with a more natural cedar look.

Two years on, there is some scaffolding on the site now, but nothing much seems to have happened. We asked the City about the the delays, and they provided this information:

“The latest that the planning officer dealing with the case has had from the University about their development programme is:

“At the present time, much of the work is being prepared off site and this includes tree inspectors, green wall manufacture, design of the planters, window casement manufacture, design of the solar fins, louvres, and window surrounds. The main contractor is currently organising a number of contractors to work on installing the mitigation measures and when this all arrives on site there will be more visible activity.

“The University have confirmed that Beard are currently working on the badger run foundations, and are securing the relevant agreements with Network Rail regarding scaffolding design.

“The works are not going as quickly as many would like, but build projects are by their nature complex matters and it is common to have delays for varying reasons. The timetable has slipped from the phasing plan in part because of time taken on the procurement of the main contractor. The University has a revised programme and the works are progressing in accordance with this programme.”