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4506120 Andrew Chadwick

Do Jordan Hill and Lakeside constitute neighbourhoods in their own right? Property sites seem to think so.

4506117 Andrew Chadwick

Suburb node "Cutteslowe" node/14191310 within suburb relation "North Oxford" relation/13046270 (which has a proper label node of its own). The hierarchy's gone a little odd if that's happening.

Idk if North Oxford should encompass Oxford North. Should Wolvercote contain Wolvercote Cemetary?

Perhaps Summertown, Sunnymead, and Cutteslowe should be promoted to suburbs (ideally if we can figure out the boundaries - Cutteslowe should be easy, given its history)

Or should Cutteslowe be downgraded to an OSM quarter?

5015381 Andrew Chadwick

North Oxford golf club to close and be redeveloped as housing in late October 2025 (h/t to the Oxford Clarion again!)

https://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/25427673.oxford-university-plans-build-new-homes-golf-club/

Submissions to Cherwell District council show the redevelopment covering the entire area:

https://www.cherwell.gov.uk/site-search/results/?q=PR6b

The wider aspects of the Cherwell Local Plan 2011-2031 are summarised in the first result, "PR6b Land West of Oxford Road Development Brief Cherwell District Council August 2022", and that's well worth a look too. However, this OSM note is just about the immediate aspects of the golf club being shuttered soon: "disused:" prefixes for all the buildings, holes and fairways, I guess. Won't be a building site for a bit, I imagine.

5010361 Andrew Chadwick

Address interpolations cannot run along the outside of a building, and these addresses will not work correctly. These need an interpolation way instead, leading from somewhere near the main entrance to "inside", away from the main entrance to convey corect meaning, if we can't go inside and find where all the corridors and staircases really are :)

Separate stairway-exclusive address ranges work similarly, if there's an external door to the siaircase.

See Cooper House and Marina House for how it's supposed to be done. Since these are street addresses, not flat addresses, the house name is unneccessary for the address. The only alternatives is addr:place and addr:parentstreet, but that's very counterintuitive. It is sufficient if all the addresses as interpolated are within the building outline.

addr:housename has the same level of meaning as addr:housenumber. It is not subordinate.

5006056 Andrew Chadwick

Shops "practical completion anticipated January 2026", according to https://www.vailwilliams.com/property/barton-park-oxford/. So assume more access behind by then, and shops soon thereafter.

Revisit in the new year, I guess?

4935737 Andrew Chadwick

Check: does this link and building entrance exist any more? From memory, it would seem to pass through the back half of M&S.

4986474 Andrew Chadwick

footpaths and turning/delivery space down the front of IDRM and Boundary Brook House need adding. They usefully link up Old Road and Roosevelt Drive for pedestrians and cyclists now that the shared track near the GHB site is heavily restricted.

4852776 gmar5

Opening in Sep/Oct 2025.

4887806

Is the restaurant still open? The website is active, but the opening hours always show 'closed'.

4740759 Andrew Chadwick

These roads are now designated as School Street(s), according to the County Council website. In other words, there are now additional restrictions around school opening and closing times, which should be signposted on the roads already.

Need to find the road extents, then tag the relevant bits of road with the tags we decide on.

See the main discussion thread at note/4671909 #OxonSchoolStreets2025