A street trader's barrow may get the push because Oxford University dons say it is an eyesore.

Michael Barlow, founder of the Oxford T-Shirt Company, has run his business outside Hertford College in Catte Street, Oxford, for more than a decade - with the city council's permission. But ever since he set up, Hertford College bursar Peter Baker has objected.

For years, the council refused to remove Mr Barlow's family business because it could not find sufficient grounds to do so. Now a new attempt is being made.

The Lord Mayor of Oxford, Maureen Christian, told the city highways committee: "It's not just the University that's opposed to this. The stall is outside the Radcliffe Camera, a historic world heritage site."

Mr Baker said: "A world heritage view should not be obstructed by street trading. Catte Street was never designed as a shopping area."

But Labour councillor Gill Sanders said: "It's an innocuous little stall, doing no-one any harm. Quite frankly I think the University's attitude is quite petty."

Mr Barlow, of Cuddesdon Way, Blackbird Leys, said in a letter to the committee: "After 13 years we have built a viable business and feel it is unreasonable to be told we are to be moved."

The Environment and Health committee has the final say when it meets on December 14.

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