No progress has been made on selling off a controversial kickabout area in Oxford — a year after it was agreed to sell and relocate the facility.

Information requested by Ben Mumby-Croft under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that despite members of Oxford City Council's Cowley area committee agreeing to investigate disposing of the facility in Crescent Road on October 3, 2007, not a single step appeared to have been taken to make it happen.

The information released by the council said no formal meetings had taken place to discuss the plan, nor had any potential buyers been identified.

And the council was also yet to secure a commercial valuation of the small site, which is opposite Mr Mumby-Croft's home.

He said: "When I have spoken to the council before, they have said things are happening, but it's all confidential and hush-hush. But from the information I have got, it seems like that was a lot of hogwash."

Mr Mumby-Croft, 33, first raised concerns about the kickabout area, which backs on to halls of residence owned by Oxford Brookes University, three years ago.

He and neighbours were getting repeatedly bothered by balls smashing windows, damaging doors and breaking guttering.

Students living in the halls of residence also reported people lighting fires, taking drugs and stealing bicycles.

A spokesman for the council last month said work was "ongoing" in terms of disposing of the site.

Bob Timbs, council board member for leisure and sport, said: "In the current climate, we don't really want to sell any land because you will sell it at quite a loss.

"Although Mr Mumby-Croft thinks we are not doing anything, we have been doing a lot behind the scenes, but it is tied up with a lot of different factors."