ABOUT JERICHO - PLANNING

Grantham gone

Building sold

Posted - May 14, 2011

The Council has agreed to sell Grantham House, for a sum assumed to be well above £3 million, to a private developer who will refurbish the interior to bring it up to current standards. While this will not create any social housing on the site it will generate funds that can be used to support social housing elsewhere in Jericho, possibly on the canalside site.

Other planning items

Jericho census profile
Another makeover for Cranham Street
For a community vision
Multicolour makeover for ‘iconic’ Grantham
Cooperative proliferation
Developing our doorstep
Welcome to Jericho
New health centre on the horizon
Here comes the crowd
Objections to Chiltern railway plans
Mount Place makeover options
Waiting for the water
Jericho by numbers

Did you know?

Who has a car?

According to the 2001 Census, only 47% of Jericho households have a car compared with 67% for Oxford as a whole.

Where the name Jericho comes from?

The name Jericho is probably taken from the parable of the Good Samaritan. Traditionally the name was given to places where travellers who arrived after the town gates had closed at sunset could find lodgings overnight.