A new GP 'super-surgery' should be built as part of Oxford's West End project rather than at the Radcliffe Infirmary, according to a leading city councillor.

An outline planning application for a large building on part of the Woodstock Road hospital site, left, was unanimously opposed by the central, south and west area committee.

Oxford City Primary Care Trust wants to bulldoze an existing building at the RI to make way for a four-storey development with five GP surgeries, a resource centre, pharmacy, cafe and shops.

The draft plans also include 160 spaces in a basement car park and 35 key worker homes.

But city councillor Bob Price said the new super-surgery would be better in the multi-million- pound scheme to regenerate the west of the city.

He said: "It is not the right site for this proposal. The West End development is a possibility."

Tony Joyce, chairman of the Oxford Civic Society, told the committee: "Whenever we get large scale planning applications to do with health, it is very easy to be swayed by the health considerations alone."

Penny Astrop, of the PCT, said: "The opportunity cannot be overlooked. Nowhere else is better located."

The council's strategic development control committee will make a final decision on the scheme on May 24.