PLANS to refurbish a school, create new university blocks and a new hotel are just some of the planning applications which have been submitted or approved across the county this week.

To take a look at the plans in full please visit the planning portal on Oxford.gov.uk

•Planning reference: 21/01388/FUL

•Where? Court Place Gardens, Oxford

•In brief: This week Oxford City Council’s planning committee approved planning permission for the University of Oxford to demolish existing student accommodation and rebuild new buildings. The new accommodation blocks, used by post-graduates and their families, would house almost double the number of students. The new blocks will allow for more students to be housed, as it will provide a total of 71 two-bed and three-bedroom houses. Despite objections from neighbours and residents from Iffley, mainly concerning how the new buildings will affect light quality, the council approved the plans unanimously.

•Planning reference: 21/01347/FUL

•Where? University Of Oxford Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford

•In brief: the council’s planning committee also approved a second application this week, that had been submitted by the University of Oxford. Planning permission was unanimously granted to the university to build a 4,500 square meter global health centre. The site at Old Road Campus on Roosevelt Drive, to be dubbed the Institute for Global Health, is being built to help assist the university continue to expand its medical research. It will provide a base for the University’s Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health to collaborate with the Nuffield Department of Population Health.

•Planning reference: P19/V3114/FUL (Vale of White Horse District Council)

•Where? Tesco, Garden Centre, Marcham Road, Abingdon

•In brief: the council approved planning permission for a budget hotel to built on this land. Although the initial application for the 86-bed hotel was submitted by Travelodge, during the application process Premier Inn adopted the plans. The new site hopes to provide six full-time jobs for people in the area, as well as a further 18 part-time jobs. The hotel will be complete a restaurant as well as 71 car parking spaces, as well as an area for bike storage.

•Planning reference: 21/03158/FUL

•Where? Magdalen College School, Cowley Place, Oxford

•In brief: the independent school has applied to demolish the existing three-storey link building between the existing sports hall and an academic block. The new building would also be three-stories but instead contain a kitchen, teaching classroom and a learning support department.

•Planning reference: 21/03057/FUL

•Where? Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford

•In brief: this application, also from the University of Oxford, asks to construct a new humanities building. If approved, the building would have a concert hall, experimental performance lab, a new lecture hall, as well as public engagement and outreach facilities. It would also contain an academic faculty space, parking facilities and cycle spaces.

For more information about what other planning applications have been made across the county please visit:

•Oxford City Council: public.oxford.gov.uk/online-applications

•West Oxfordshire District Council: westoxon.gov.uk/planning-and-building/planning-permission/view-planning-applications

•Vale of the White Horse District Council : whitehorsedc.gov.uk/vale-of-white-horse-district-council/planning-and-development

•Cherwell District Council: planningregister.cherwell.gov.uk/Planning/Display

•Oxfordshire County Council: oxfordshire.gov.uk/residents/environment-and-planning