A CITY petrol station which has served drivers for decades has been demolished.
The Esso petrol station in Oxpens Road has been knocked down to make way for a redevelopment featuring 400 homes, 10,400sq m of office space and a 155-bedroom hotel and leisure facilities.
The filling station closed its pumps in August and was demolished on Friday.
With no new petrol station planned in the scheme and the BP garage in Botley due to close for the redevelopment of Seacourt Retail Park the nearest place for drivers west of the city to fill up will be Sainsbury’s at Heyford Hill.
The multi-million pound Oxpens regeneration was agreed by Oxford City Council in November 2013.
It is part of a wider vision for the west of the city centre.
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