BLACKBIRD LEYS Parish Council has objected to the bid to turn Blackbird Leys Park into a Town Green.
Campaigners fighting the proposed £9.2m swimming pool at the Blackbird Leys leisure centre in Pegasus Road last month submitted the Town Green application in a bid to stop the scheme.
Oxford City Council said it was frustrated at the move by supporters of Temple Cowley Pools, which would close under the plans.
Council service director Tim Sadler last month told the Oxford Mail: “We are quite frustrated that we have gone all this way and a small group intent on protecting the Temple Cowley Pools have submitted this Town Green application.”
The application to Oxfordshire County Council could scupper the Leys pool plan, and will delay it beyond the original target to complete it in 2012, the London Olympics year.
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