Once upon a time, not so long ago, Port Meadow in Oxford looked like this:
Now it looks like this:
Maybe, with a bit of effort, it could have been worse…
Today Oxford University’s Congregation decides what should be done about this; quite a lot of people favour taking a floor off.
Sketching Weakly wonders whether slightly more radical action could be needed.
Once he’s finished on Port Meadow he could pop along to Colliers Wood…
Maybe they could take the bottom floor off.
I like your thinking there Rick…
Love the Great Green Monster! I’ll post that for my facebook friends, if I may – some of them may look at f’bk before they go to Congregation at 2.00…
Wonder what they’ll all decide!!!
There is an article in this weeks Sunday Times about this- they suggest taking one storey down- horse – bolted- etc
There’s always hope, even when the horse is dashing halfway across Port Meadow…maybe…
Nice to see some humour in a totally depressing story – and now we know the outcome… the whips and whipping boys were out in numbers
Sadly!
Any chance the developers could be forced to plant very, very many mature trees to hide the hideous buildings ?
I think that’s on the plan for Option 1 which may well be the one that happens (painting it green could be surprisingly effective…), but expect trees will be but saplings…