Oxford United have as we speak printed additional particulars of the plans for our potential new home in Kidlington. The membership has printed seven new photographs of the proposal and a digital fly by.
The membership has a imaginative and prescient to create a sustainable sports activities, leisure and life-style landmark in Oxfordshire which is regionally cherished and internationally recognised. After an intensive web site search, the Triangle in Kidlington has been recognized as the one viable and probably available web site to create a best-in-class facility as the brand new home of Oxford United.
The membership’s new home will set the benchmark for neighborhood profit, business innovation, and environmental efficiency, and put the customer expertise at its coronary heart. This will take the membership into the twenty first century and allow the continued success of each the lads’s and girls’s groups, in addition to its vitally vital neighborhood outreach and charitable work.
The membership’s present settlement to play on the Kassam Stadium involves an finish in 2026 and they also need to discover a new home. This has led to plans for a 16,000-capacity stadium and sophisticated inside a single building. This will embrace a 180-bed resort, restaurant, convention centre, well being & wellbeing area and a neighborhood plaza.
The northern a part of the building, subsequent to the brand new plaza, could have a spread of retail, restaurant and neighborhood areas, together with the Club Shop, Sports Bar / Café and Restaurant.
The building can be surrounded and complemented by new landscaping and community-focused open public inexperienced areas which is able to improve the biodiversity of the location by greater than 10%.
The stadium can be higher linked to public transport and create new connections for the broader neighborhood, with a brand new east to west pedestrian and cycle route, improved footway and cycleway hyperlinks to Oxford Parkway station and the Water Eaton Park and Ride web site in addition to enhanced pedestrian services alongside Oxford Road.
The stadium has been designed for all, lowering obstacles to participation and involvement. The stadium designs characteristic sensory rooms and a devoted accessible concourse with elevated views of the sector of play, demonstrating the membership’s dedication in making certain everybody is ready to comfortably go to Oxford’s new home for soccer.
Oxford United are dedicated to ladies’s league and cup fixtures being performed on the stadium and need everybody to have equal access to the brand new services.
On the night of the ninth October, the membership is holding a particular preview exhibition of the revealed designs and setting out much more element concerning the mission. This will then be adopted by twelve days of exhibitions, the place the general public can see the proposals and go away their suggestions.
A duplicate of the exhibition boards and an choice to finish the suggestions type electronically is available on the stadium web site at www.oufcstadium.co.uk
The Exhibition follows the choice by Oxfordshire County Council’s Cabinet final month to provide in precept consent to lease the triangle web site in Kidlington as the brand new home for Oxford United. Details could be discovered on Oxfordshire County Council’s devoted web site right here: https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/council/about-your-council/oxford-united-stadium
Oxford United Football Club Chief Executive Tim Williams stated:
“With our proper to make use of the Kassam Stadium coming to an finish in 2026 and no choice to renew the lease, we should discover a new home. The membership is dedicated to creating a proposal which is very sustainable and neighborhood targeted while offering a state-of-the-art vacation spot for all. The additional element we’ve got launched as we speak reveals how critically we take these ideas, and I’m delighted to share the primary glimpse of our stadium with the entire of Oxfordshire.
“I hope everybody from Kidlington, the encompassing areas and throughout the county will come to the exhibition and check out the plans.
“We wish to hear all of your suggestions.”
From Tuesday tenth to Saturday twenty first of October, the membership is internet hosting a collection of exhibition boards on the Holiday Inn Hotel at Peartree Roundabout the place the designs can be on present for public scrutiny.
The exhibition can be open from 0900-2000 day by day at Holiday Inn Oxford, Peartree Roundabout, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 8JD.
There can be three ‘Meet the Project Team’ days through the exhibition on
- Thursday twelfth October, 1500-2000
- Saturday 14th October, 0900-2000
- Thursday nineteenth October 1500-2000.
During these periods, members from all features of the mission workforce can be readily available to reply any questions.
