{"id":9562,"date":"2015-02-13T17:45:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T17:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9562"},"modified":"2015-02-13T17:45:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T17:45:27","slug":"bid-to-lower-height-of-controversial-oxford-flats-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9562","title":{"rendered":"Bid to lower height of controversial Oxford flats fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Opponents of a controversial Oxford University student housing scheme have lost a vote to get the height of some of the blocks reduced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Oxford Times writes:<br \/>\n<\/span>DEFIANT campaigners are vowing to continue opposing the Castle Mill student flats after suffering a crucial blow.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting of Oxford University\u2019s \u2018parliament\u2019 on Tuesday, dons snubbed a motion to reduce the height of the buildings in a vote of 210 for and 536 against.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards the motion\u2019s author Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch and his allies said they would consider whether to call a postal ballot of members not present.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-oxfordshire-29836144\" target=\"_blank\">For background see BBC news\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/11585977.Uni_could_face___30m_bill_to_lower____eyesore____student_flats\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Mail<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordtimes.co.uk\/news\/11787059.Save_Port_Meadow_campaigners_threaten_court_again_over_Castle_Mill_flats\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningresource.co.uk\/article\/1333436\/bid-lower-height-controversial-oxford-flats-fails\" target=\"_blank\">Search Planning Resource<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opponents of a controversial Oxford University student housing scheme have lost a vote to get the height of some of the blocks reduced. The Oxford Times writes: DEFIANT campaigners are vowing to continue opposing the Castle Mill student flats after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9562\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9563,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562\/revisions\/9563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}