An Oxford college has been given the green light to build plush, new student digs.

Wolfson College was given the go ahead by Oxford City Council last week to build new three-storey student accommodation.

The accommodation will be built on their current site on Linton Road and aims to accommodate 50 students who are “displaced within the city’s private housing market”.

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The college has said the new building will allow approximately 70 per cent of the college’s students to live on site.

A resident raised concerns that more student accommodation would lead to increased traffic and pollution, although the planning officer has ruled that students will not be able to park their cars on the site.

Instead, parking spaces on site will be reduced from 35 to three, with two of these being accessible spaces and one to only be used for dropping off.

The River Cherwell is a corridor for bats so the applicant promised that this will not be subject to “any artificial illumination”.

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The building is not going to be attached to the existing Grade II listed college campus buildings and the three car parking spaces will be on an area of the lawn to the west of the building.

The committee decided the scheme would allow a “more efficient use of the site”, as the private accommodation currently being used by students will be available to the public instead and landscaping improvements are set to go ahead.